Who designed the ubiquitous sport scooter body? By turtle8 (Read 484 times)

[turtle8]

I was just wondering, if some Chinese designer somewhere could take credit for the 150cc sport scooter body every scooter mfg/distributor is copying.

[Bashan]

Here's Wikipedia's take on the whole thing. It looks like the Italians got it started and then the Asians eventually copied it.......how unusual . Rich

[turtle8]

Lemme go at this from different angle.

Which forum member has (or had) the oldest (among the membership) Chinese scooter?

[jct842]

mine oldest was not chinese, it was made by misubishi and a 1958 and only a few months old when I bought it. john

[jct842]

yup, mine was very similar. the wards "nassua" didn't have a few of the amenity's! I had a d cell for the horn! No storage battery for lights either hence the d cell for horn. no turn signals either. Wards just like walmart today had special models made on the cheeep. but was a twist and go just like the 3 scooters I have today. mine was baby schidt yellow with white trim. will have to watch and see what that goes for. also at the time I thought mine was a 165, but looking at what I found on the internet it was probably a 125cc. while in high school my soon to be wife/exwife liked riding but the rear seat was not comfortable and had a bent rod for a handle to grab behind the driver. I filled up for free mostly at a gas station a block from the house at night, drained his hoses. 3-4 hoses would fill it up! it had it's rod thru the crank case when I left for the navy and my old man disposed of it while I was gone.
mine was like the one on the left. I found this picture on the internet.

john