VespaHartford.com
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Vespa Hartford Home Page
Description
The Vespa� MotorScooter is more than a means of transportation. It's a lifestyle, a work of art. It makes a statement to all of those around you - about who you are and what you are. Use this website to learn more about the Vespa�, it's history and the range of accessories and lifestyle products that accompany the Vespa�.
Vespa Hartford makes its home in a former Marlin-Rockwell machine tool manufacturing facility conveniently located in the Hartford suburb of Plainville. The 1940's brick and glass block facade is reminiscent of days when the Vespa scooter was popularized throughout postwar Europe as a solution to hard economic times and urban congestion. Owner Doug Day and wife Susan were keenly aware of the similarities to today's social context when they chose the Plainville Industrial Center location to introduce Connecticut to the motorscooter.
"We found that the most challenging aspect of breaking ground here was to educate the general public on exactly what a scooter is and what it can do", says Doug. "Fortunately, we've found our greater Hartford neighbors to be a highly supportive, with a diverse local population who don't need to be convinced that the scooter makes good sense now as much as ever. Hardly a day goes by without someone stopping to reminisce about a Vespa they owned in Europe or even the U.S. It's great to have a well-informed customer who can pass along his enthusiasm for what a scooter has to offer to the person looking at one for the first time."
