Here we have a pretty rare scooter for the US, a Vespa GS VS4. It is for sale right now on Ebay. These are really neat scooters, but you just don't see them very often. Actually, you just don't see many GS 150's at all, but if you do, it is usually the VS5. That is why it is especially perplexing that someone decided to take a hacksaw to this one. It appears that someone thought it would be a good idea to put a P200 motor in this extremely rare frame, and in so doing, chopped it all up. That sure is a bummer.
Yes, I know that restoring a scooter like this is going to be expensive, and finding a motor for one is likely to be hard... but honestly, it is the sort of thing where if you don't have the resources to do right, you just sell the thing on to someone who can do it justice. This is the worst of both worlds. Someone hacked it up for a motor transplant, but couldn't finish the job. At this point, I'd be pretty cautious in approaching this scooter. This scooter is clearly sitting at Barber's Alfa shop in Sacramento, so I'm hoping that whoever cut it up, knew what they were doing... but then again, the scooter could have just landed there at some point down the line. Hopefully someone can rescue this dying beast.
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