Vespa Car with Suicide Doors
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มี.ค. 2022
- The legendary scooter company made an economy car. This 1958 Vespa 400 is a 2 stroke 2 cylinder 2 seater with roll top roof and suicide doors. Over 30,000 were produced!
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Wow, I never knew Vespa made cars .. amazing little car with a 2 stroke engine..
Vespa is the name of the well known motorcycle, the brand was (and still is) the Piaggio.
Anyway, the Vespa 400 was an experiment from Piaggio to compete with the also well known Fiat 500, but it didn't last so long. Indeed the Vespa 400 is very rare!
I agree 👍
Yes, the more micros the better!!!
Fuck suv's this is real fun.
Both have their pros and cons but still great ☺️
You must be a mod. 🛵 🧥
With small cars you get into cool accidents
These are very rare in Italy, they were built in France by a subsidiary of Piaggio and gave origin to the "no license" microcars for fourteeners which are still popular in France and Italy as well (though in Italy you need a "mini license" to drive them nowadays) ;-D
If you remember also the Beretta gun factory produced one prototype but I absolutely don't remember what engine it had! Could it possibly be a Fiat 500 engine?
Wowee! I too was not aware that Vespa made a car. It's charming 😄
What an interesting Vespa car!!! Thanks for sharing this fun video!! 👍👍
should have a vespa scoot on the trailer
I love the micro cars coverage! Keep it up!
They really are intriguing!
My Dad was a Vespa 400 Dealer in Victoria Texas in 1961. We sold 3 Vespa 400s. One red one, and two white ones (one that my Dad painted the top a metallic green). My sister and I would ride in the rear seat area of the red one, to and from our house to my Dad's shop a few miles away. I still have one Vespa 400 brochure.
I've never seen,nor heard of these.Thank you for showing us another special vehicle.
We had quite a lot of them (and their big rival, the Isetta "Yogurt jar") in France back in 58-60 when I was a kid. Always loved them. Meanwhile, my dad owned a "big" car, then : A Renault 4CV. 4 doors, 4 seats, 4 cylinders, 4 stroke. To sum it up: a real car for the for of us with Mum, Dad and Sis😁.
I really don't believe a Renault is a big car. Maybe a Cadillac coupe DeVille is a big car but not a Renault.
my german grandmother was named izetta brinks, so i kind of watch for that.
@@benjimenfranklin7650 that's why he typed "big", not big
Looking at images, that car also has really interesting doors.
Thanks! In around 1999, there was one Vespa car that could be won in a contest, in my city, Columbus, Ohio. Around that time there was a mini resurgence of interest in Vespa Scooters, and a new shop opened near to where I live, people were locating all sorts of "barn found" Vespa scooters. A buddy of mine found me one,....I still have it. It is partially restored, but still needs a lot of work and can't be driven. It is an Allstate Vespa from 1959, a 125 cc engine, with a very primitive front spring shock. I had & still have a 1985 Honda Elite 150cc scooter, that I bought brand new in '85, that I enjoy every summer.
I would love to find a meetup like this.
I don't have a true microcar, but I really enjoy my Sprite, and my wife's daily driver is a Miata.
Rode in one in the early 1960s. Tight fit. Didn't run well so we checked and found one of the 2 plug wires was not connected. Fixed that and the new power experienced was breath taking. Well, kinda...
Great story, have a great day from a Vespa enthusiast from Canterbury U.K.
i still have a wind wing left over from mine. they are a blast to drive. thanks for the post
The real unicorn… people in my country can go crazy for this collector's item
The round headlights are perfect for that car!!
I think this was NOT a bad ride! Compared to the SH#T SOLD NOW (FOR TONS OF CASH!) THIS WAS GREAT!
Awesome, would be so cool to see cars like this. Thanks
Thanks to the bureaucrats in DC, we can't have these of many other vehicles----Can't fit 10 airbags in there, not to mention the polluting 2-stroke and suicide doors.
I love classic motorcycles and microcars. All really cute and fun
I just love old 2 stroke cars.
This „key‘s just the ignition“ & the two levers by the sides of the handbrake for choke & starter is exactly the same layout that the original Fiat 500 had as well.
Thats all a person needs is a small car to get around, not these big imagery statements people think they "need"
Looks like a nice italian version of the Trabant😍
An Italian Trabi with suicide doors!
Beautiful!
YES YES YES! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MICRO CAR!!
Lee Hazel had a Vespa rag top in the 70's he put a VW motor with wide axel and drove it mostly offroad near my house west of Portland Oregon .
I wish I could still buy one of these new!!
I could have bought one in Scotts Valley CA for $400, missing the windshield. That was way before micro cars had climbed in price. He also had 2 Honda 600 coupes, a Cony PU, a Daihatsu PU, Morris minors, and 2 Trojan 3 wheelers.
You missed an amazing deal!!
Cute little car.
Saw my first one last weekend at the Walter Mitty historic races at Road Atlanta.
Hehe, that reminds me of a car belonging to a friend of the family when I was around 7 years old. It was a little 2 seat Goggomobile. My sister and myself were both allowed to steer it while the adult controlled the throttle. On private land, obviously.
That thing is darling!
Cool little car
Супер Веспа!
Super cool
That's a COOL 😎 setup.
Should be towing a Vespa scooter on a trailor behind it!😎👍
My late older brother had a Lancia Appia maybe 58 about the same size, 5 speed transmission on the column black red leather interior
The Appia was a medium-size car (at least for European standard) and probably costed tree times as such.
@@carloduroni5629 my brother got it for free. His boss gave it to him.
@@carloduroni5629 images.app.goo.gl/rvbLf8CPmmxMNX33A
i want onee this is such a classic cute little car lol
Most beautiful Small Cars🚘🚗
folks in italy had one
apparently people used to put 350cc race engines in them and they would scrape the rear bumper on launch
Schön, dass ich mein 1.Auto Wiedersehen kann! Dieses VESPA 400 wurde in Augsburg Deutschland in einer Stückzahl von ca 300 gebaut. Statt Lenkradschloss hatte es ein simples Schalthebelschloss. Mein kleinster 4 Sitzer, wenn das Dach runtergerollt war konnte man hinten sogar aufrecht sitzen!🤗
super cool car and great channel
Lol what a sick ride. I like it.
I'd love to have a microcar to drive to work. Make life interesting
awesome dennis, I look forward to seeing you again at Wings, Warbirds, and wheels 2022
Lookin’ forward to it!
Very cool........................ 👍👍👍
The parent company, Piaggio, also builds Aircraft... check for Piaggio Avanti... it's awesome.
They also used to build locomotives and wagons and even military boats.
I want one. Why is this the first I've ever heard of these cars? I would have had one already if I had known earlier
Super like, 😃👍
Прикольная машинка))))))
nice Vespa car
VERY KOOL. 👍👍
Looks like fun!
I'll bet it's deafening to drive though.
👍👍👍
Should have an vespa on the trailer .
Someone washed their Nissan figaro too hot
nice 👍
We need something like this today for just running around town on short trips but not on the highway. 😀
People drive like idiots, you'd be killed in it.
why would you need a car for short trips
Fun fact:
Although the Vespa 400 are from an Italian design by an Italian company (Piaggio) , they were all made in Fourchambault - France
The reason was FIAT fearing competition with its FIAT 500/600 project on the Italian market, put pressure on Italian contractors, urging them to choose between FIAT and Piaggio. An "offer you can't refuse" ! (FIAT led the Italian market when Piaggio known for their scooters only was a rooky in the car industry)
Piaggio surrendered, left the Italian car market and chose ACMA the factory which already assembled Vespa scooters in France.
Because of heavy customs duties (no UE by then!), the Vespa 400 hardly sold in Italia.
Wonderfull.
This would be perfect for an old folks community or a college campus!
I would be able to pick up my next girlfriend in one of these!
I’m sure she would be impressed!!
If someone said it’s me or the car. She would be standing on the side of the road waiting for the bus!!
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💥 Love ✅ It💥
Tried to buy one here in South Texas. Guy would rather let it rot than sell it.
The reason that they had a manual starter was to save energy in your battery. They got it from the Fiat 5oo
I had 2 of them in 1966. Unfortunately rust took over and we sent them to the dump. My friend kept the motors. But they are long gone too.
Que coisa linda 😻😍😍😍
How cute. Maybe a kid could ride in it but I'm sure I couldn't.
That’s a cool little car. I bet the power to weight ratio is better on the bike.
More micros !
The most interesting part is missing: The starting of the engine :(
I would worry about getting neck injuries from the incredible acceleration.
The motorcycle is more heavy(pounds) that this car!😳😄
So cute
Non sapevo di questa Vespa bellissima
I think the American micro-car was the King Midget. I really wanted one of those when I got my driver's license.
The King Midget was so tiny, an 8 y-o could reach the pedals and conceivably drive it. (I speak from childhood experience, having sat behind the wheel of one).
I want one of those🥴
Трабант здорового человека.
Reminds me of the car in the Despicable Me 2 movie. So cute.
I have a question I seen a car that had a v on the front one wheel in front an two in back with a gas engine two sets An another one same way but with a truck bed an it did not get to see the emblem on it
Wow
Very similar to HM Amby(India)!!! Looks like Amby is the elder brother of this car.
I'm from Germany but I've been to the US and spent several thousand miles on the roads there and one thing you notice as a European is how wide the lanes and the roads in general are and with that all the huge cars and trucks. Now, that said, I've got a (serious) question. Those micro cars were designed and made for narrow Italian streets. If you've been to Italy you know what I'm talking about. Isn't it genially scary to drive those on US roads?
Utterly terrifying!
Super car v nise
awesome.. what's on the front trunk?
400......
Imagine if that was 400CI instead of CC lol.
Somehow this little car is über-cool.
👍
Yep,
the engine is air-cooled but forced by a fan as it is normal for Vespas…
Wonder if they charged extra for the panoramic roof?
So those doors with the hinges on the rear edge are called "suicide doors" in English? In Finnish they're called "kaappariovet" that can be translated as grabber doors 🙂
wow i lived in longwood on church street the intercetion your at i have a face book group longwood then and now
A Vespa...?
Or a Mr. Incredible Car..?
That guy looks exactly like actor Joe Pantoliano - "Teddy" from the movie Memento, year 2000.
Esse branco é lindo. Onde vende?
I want one.
We all do!
The last 3 Civics I have owned all had higher wall channels going up the left and right side of the windshield. Why is that something to mention? Well when you have your window cracked open the water doesn't all pool up and go into your door window in a rainstorm.
It is look like Fiat 500 version, or more like SMZ S-3A. More primitive than Fiat, but more elegant in my opinion.
They´re called chicken catching doors.
Leno garaje