http://www.bikeexif.com/

With a Vincent story I'd missed, re a 21st Century version bankrolled by a lifetime Vincent freak, one Barney Li who made a bundle with auto accessories, sold biz to Valvoline ... and set out to bring back the marque / upgraded, commencing ~'02
Alas ... in '06 he died, single-bike crash in Arizona. Pity.

http://www.cycleworl...=3&article_id=691

Lead-in via
http://www.bikeexif....d-black-lightning
-- with a picture of a factory Black Lightning (such as adorns my garage wall. The pic, not the bike :-/)

Yeah, Vespa postwar (I said 'Vespa-like' and I guess your example really is/was.)
About all they had to get around on, for many years post-WW-II. Thanks to Il Duce + gullibility du '30s jour.
Would love to show up in commute traffic on that, just once. With helmet vid-cam, natch.

I preferred the Lambretta; its form was a work of Art and the guts performed admirably for me for many miles. I once rode it from SF --> Pasadena RT. We do stuff like that, when not first contemplating what a <50 mph cruise down windy Hiway 1 (much of the way) entails.