This Vespa was built in 1967 by Giancarlo Gori of Florence to participate at the week of records in Elvington circuit - England

 

Vespa 90 SS GORI . This Vespa was built in 1967 by Giancarlo Gori of Florence to participate at the week of records in Elvington circuit - England. The maximum speed after the quarter mile was 141.936 km/h and 100 km/h from standstill can be reached in 7,6 seconds. 

Giancarlo Gori’s first encounter with scooters was in 1958, when he and his father Vasco ran a workshop on Lungarno Cellini in Florence. Together they tinkered with a Lambretta 175TV and soon realised that the engines of these scooters could be tuned quite a bit.

Attracted imitators and soon they were meeting on the A1 motorway at dawn on Sundays, just outside the gates of the Tuscan capital. The track was four kilometres long and apart from the occasional visit by the local police, the races went off without any significant incidents or accidents. Numerous tuning fans and enthusiastic kids soon lined the track to cheer on their teams.

Giancarlo Gori realised another project in 1965: he tuned his Lambretta 175 Series III into a monster machine that conjured up 170 km/h on the asphalt in the motorsport mecca “Autodromo di Monza”.

Giancarlo Gori had to rethink and devoted himself more and more to Vespas. He sold tuning kits for the 50cc small frames, soon switched to 75cc and tinkered with a Vespa 125 Primavera in his spare time. 

But when the Vespa 90SS came on the market, it was love at first sight and Giancarlo Gori worked on improvements for this scooter.

The riders regularly competed in the Giro d’Italia and other scooter races in Europe. Gori’s tuned 90SS topped 120 km/h and he was not infrequently the first to see the black-and-white checkered flag.

The legendary Vespa 90SS has been in his private collection for many years, but now it is for sale. Interested parties can contact Giancarlo Gori