Vespa from Space

By Paul on December 16, 2011 5:49 AM | 3 Comments
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Pelayo | December 20, 2011 10:57 AM

Brisbane, CA?? So who bought all the parts when this placed probably closed in the 1980s?

Author Profile Page Paul replied to comment from Pelayo | December 20, 2011 11:04 AM

Yup, Piaggio had a tortured history in the US. At one time there were four separate distributors (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Cushman), not to mention Sears. By the 70's, they had collapsed into only one US distributor. It was originally in South S.F., but then they moved to Brisbane. I've heard a lot of stories about what happened when they shut down. One guy I talked to worked there at that time. He said that a lot of the parts just got loaded into huge dumpsters and went to the dump. Some of the other stuff ended up at local shops, and ultimately at First Kick. I guess that a majority went to the dump. Sad.

-Paul