Here are the best sites I’ve come across with vintage scooter images and ads. Lots of good mining here for crafters and collectors alike!

Thanks to Joe B. for some of these finds.

Flickr Hive Mind site

Flickriver site

Flickr site

Forget the tires – just look at all those wonderful helmets and goggles.
Thanks to Joe B. for this great find!

Martin was kind enough to send me some more photos of his stupendous scooterswag collection.

And here’s a link to Scooterswag’s first post about his collection.

Enjoy!

This intriguing medal shows an early Vespa (VB-1?) in silverplate. Engraved on the back is “Cycles & Motobikes – 12 Rue Coraterie – Geneve”. It measures approximately 1.20″ in diameter. And this is a rare bit of swag you can own today for $47. Wonder if it was created as some sort of promotion piece? If you know more, please e-mail us at tips AT scooterswag.com.

Thanks to Julie G. for this find!

rubylane.com

I would love to get rid of the ugly Ad Sense banner ads on top of my blog and replace it with something actually pertinent to our interests. So do you own a scooter shop? Have something you’d like to advertise? Then let me know. Send me an idea and I can send you a quote for how much it would cost. (E-mail me at tips AT scooterswag.com) I can even help you write and design a banner ad for your company. I have Google Analytics reports I can forward on but just as a ballpark figure, ScooterSwag has over 1,000 unique visitors per week !

Some recent ads I’ve come across featuring scooters . . .

“Big Mac Tonight” was a popular McDonalds campaign in the late 80s with a crooning moon singing the praises of their menu. These “Happy Meal” toys do come available on eBay every now and then.

1989 Big Mac Tonight TV Commercial

And here we have a 1964 Qantas Airline ad that shows who the Vespa was originally designed for — the housewife wearing a skirt with shopping to carry.

Thanks to Julie G. for this find!

By the way, this bit of rare swag can be purchased for $9.95:

ecrater.com

Hi all,

The publicity folks for this new scooter movie have given me a real nice prize package to give away:

A $25 gas gift card, Larry Crowne T-shirt (which is a very cool silhouette of a P200 by the way) & a notebook.

If you live in the States and want to see the film then be the first to e-mail me your mailing address at tips (at) scooterswag.com and you’ll be the winner!

The movie opens today (July 1) and rumor has it whoever wrote the script for this movie must of hung out with the real scooter crowd in LA as the characters go to some of the very same places and go on the same rides.

Here’s a trailer:

larrycrowne.com

Good luck!

And we have a winner! Karen J. in Maryland sent me an e-mail at 1:14 pm today. Congrats Karen!

With the warmer weather it is only natural that we are riding more not to mention seeing more scooters in advertising. From the top to the bottom is an ad for Altoids, an in-store sign at Target, a banner ad for Nikon cameras, a window sign for Old Navy, several stills from a Pup-Peroni dog treats TV commercial, and a banner ad for an HP phone.

Thanks to Cassie M. and Julie G. for some of these finds.