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Periodicals
8. A Broken Run of American Scooterist: Vespa Club of America Member Magazine. Cleburne, Texas (and later Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma): Vespa Club of America, 1992-2013. Staple-bound periodicals, glossy color covers with a mix of
color and black and white contents. Very good to near fine. Light sun fading along the edges of issue one and light rubbing
on the covers of the 1993 and ’94 issues. Still in publication, the quarterly American Scooterist started life as Vespa
Club of America Member Magazine in 1992 and changed names a few years later. Typical of club publications, they
feature club events and member profiles, as well as scooter reviews, touring stories, scooter history, and coverage of
Amerivespa, the club’s annual rally. This collection includes 41 issues, including the scarce premier issue: Vol. 1 Nos. 1
and 2 (1992) and 3 (1993); Vol. 2 Nos. 1 and 2 (1993) and 3 (1994); Summer, Autumn and Winter 1998; Spring, Summer
and Autumn/Winter 1999; Winter 2000; all four issues from 2001; all four issues from 2002; all four issues from 2003;
Spring 2004 (they then started a numbering system) and numbers 45 (2004) through 61 (2013) (numbers 48/49 and
54/55 are single volumes). $250.00
9. A Full Run [Almost] of Scoot! Quarterly/Scoot! Magazine. San Francisco (and later
San Jose and Santa Clara): Scoot Quarterly/Scoot Magazine, 1998-2011. Staplebound
periodicals, glossy color covers with a mix of color and black and white contents.
Very good with light wear to the wraps and one
issue with mailing label on the front cover. Scoot! Lasted
for an impressive sixty issues and was America’s premier
motorscooter publication with a mix of vintage and modern
scooters, touring and club news, reviews, music, and
fashion; they had more of a club/hotrod feel in the beginning,
and then developed a more polished look. Two issues
were released in 1997 and then four per year were
published until five in 2007 through
2009, six issues in 2010, and their final
issue in February of 2011. The name
was changed from Quarterly to Magazine
with the Summer 2004 issue. This
collection includes 58 issues, lacking the
very scarce first and second issues that
were printed in such limited numbers
that much of the material was reprinted
in later issues. Also included are the
2007 and 2009 Scooter Buyer’s Guides
and 28 pieces of ephemera (postcards,
trading cards, decals, buttons, etc.) that
were occasionally included with the
magazine. $500.00