Sold for £12,650
(including buyers premium)
Registration No: MGR 24G
Frame No: V9SS1T1714
MOT: Exempt
The Vespa SS90 made between 1965 and 1971 is much sought after by collectors due to its extreme rarity with just over 5000 produced. Most of these have been lost to the ravages of time and through overly ambitious riders. The SS90 was developed as a sporting variant of the small frame Vespas. With a dummy fuel tank, a centrally located spare wheel, narrower more aerodynamic fairing and a pad on top of the dummy tank riders could crouch low behind the headlight to reduce drag at higher speeds. The two-stroke 88.5cc engine used in the Super Sprint is a single-cylinder, air-cooled unit with a bore/stroke of 47/51mm and an 8.7:1 compression ratio. It’s paired with a 4-speed gearbox, the dry weight is 77kg, and the top speed is 93kmh (58mph).
This SS90 has an exceptional and detailed traceable history kindly supplied to us by the vendor. This particular scooter was a gift to the vendor from his grandfather Angelo Strocco in 1981. Angelo was an Italian national and the owner of the renowned Angelos Scooter Station in Newcastle Upon Tyne, established in the early 1960s. Angelo had legendary status as a scooter expert and sold the business to Mo-Tech when he retired, at the age of 70, in 1984. Mo-Tech continues to trade from the same location in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This 90SS scooter was supplied by Angelo's Scooter Station on 30th May 1969 to a customer that had purchased every Vespa model from Angelos' Scooter Station through the 1960s and early 1970s. Angelo purchased the scooter back from that customer in August 1981 as a gift for our vendor, who was 11 years old at the time, so the scooter remained registered to Angelo's Scooter Station. The scooter has remained in the same family ever since. We show a picture taken outside of Angelo's Scooter Station shortly after it was purchased back in 1981. When Angelo's Scooter Station was sold to Mo-Tech in 1984, the scooter was registered in the name of Angelo Strocco at his home address in Blaydon-on-Tyne. When Angelo sadly died in 2008 at the age of 94, the scooter was re-registered in the name of our vendor. Scanned copies of several MOT certificates, all of which were issued by Angelo's Scooter Station and signed by the vendor's grandfather, are attached. A photograph of a series of tax discs is also attached. All of the original tax discs shown in the photograph are located in the tax disc holder which is mounted to the scooter.
When the scooter was purchased in 1981, it displayed 898 miles. The current speedometer reading is 1,481 miles with those 583 miles taking place between 1981 and 1986 when the seller and his grandfather had many outings together, some of which involved the seller, who was a child at the time, driving the scooter around a large grass field! Since the mid 1980s, the scooter has been stored in a dry cellar under the house hence the dust and cobwebs on it which the seller has been instructed not to remove! Despite standing for around 40 years, the scooter is running and the engine sounds superb (see video attached). A local scooter enthusiast who recently helped the vendor to get it running again was surprised at the quality of the chassis and engine.
Detailed observations of the scooter supplied to us by the vendor include:
Prior to his death in 2008, Angelo repeatedly asked our vendor to do something with the scooter rather than leaving it standing in the cellar but our seller could not bring himself to sell it at the time. Despite there still being a very strong sentimental and emotional attachment to this scooter because of its long family history, the seller has decided it needs a more worthy and appropriate home so he has recently made the difficult decision to sell it.
For more information, please contact:
Paul Diamond
info@vintagescooters.co.uk
07768 313001
Auction: National Motorcycle Museum | Solihull, West Midlands, 26th Mar, 2025
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