, Eric Dregni is your guide to everything from the postwar American scooter boom to the golden age of Italian and European scooters, the rise of Mod scooter culture in England . . . . Today, nostalgia for vintage Vespas, Piaggios, Cushmans, Lambrettas, and other top brands drive a new thirst for retro-inspired scooters in showrooms around the world. This of brings the story up to date with the drive for zero emissions via . Throughout, author Eric Dregni offers you a wealth of imagery: , evocative , , and more—over 500 images! Along the way, he also shows you scooter , changing , and scooter . And as the ever, also includes the world’s most , from Puddlejumper to Piaggio, Ducati to Doodlebug, and Zündapp Bella to Genuine Stella. is all you need before kick-starting your scooter engine to life and praying for ever more speed. Indeed, scooters are . Streamlined spuds. Mutant oddballs of Jet Age styling gone berserk. Innovative inventions shoehorned like sardines into miniaturized monocoque bodies. Engineering and styling enigmas (the stranger the better). They are . And they are .