Scooter News Vespa House meets the OCC American Chopper visits a Melbourne scooter icon. Mikey and Vinnie pay a visit to our very own Vespa House.
Vespa House with photo's by GAZI Recently American Chopper toured Australia for a live event to an ecstatic band of followers that watch the series on the Discovery Channel.
After the live event Mikey and Vinnie trotted off to see some unique parts of Australia and while doing the rounds in Victoria they visited Vespa House to pick up a couple of Vespa’s to get around.
Vespa House, a landmark in the scooter history of Melbourne, was opened as a full time scooter workshop in 1956 by an immigrant from Northern Italy by the name of Vittorio (Tony) Tonon. It has passed through 3 generations with his son Frank and Frank’s son, Dean, continuing the tradition by running the workshop and showroom, respectively, to this day.
In the photo gallery to the right you will see Frank and Dean welcome and have a chat with the boys from the OCC in true Vespa House style. They then pass them the keys to two shiny Vespa GTS scooters.
Coming up we will be showing some footage from the day and just what Mikey and Vinnie got up to on those two mighty Vespa’s. For now take a look at the gallery supplied by GAZI Photography.
For more on Vespa House go to www.vespa-house.com.au
For GAZI Photography go to http://www.gaziphoto.com
published 8/08/2007 |