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I read an article, that said that the motor 'for the Vespa <br /> was actually the little gas motor that started <br /> the ME-262 German Jet fighter of WWII. <br /> <br /> While modern jets have a power truck come up along side <br /> and start electrically, the ME-262 had a small gas powered motor to start the jet engines. <br /> <br /> Okay, it's wild to even think that on a jet fighter to begin to crank it <br /> you actually had -a kick starter... ? <br /> <br /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_shifty.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_snooty.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/very_sad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_eh.gif" alt="" />

Hi lehaman and welcome to Posetteforever <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/viannen_01.gif" alt="" /> (and happy birthday too <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/occasion1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> ) ... <br /> <br /> What you wrote is a legend, but the "original" legend says that the Vespa engine was a kick start engine for the Piaggio fighter planes, but they had a sort of compressor to do that. It could neither be a kick starter for the ME 262 because that plane was german and even if you consider the alliances or sorts of WWII it's out of probabilities that Germans would have used an italian engine on a futuristic jet plane.... The link to planes is that the man who elaborate the concept was an aeronautical engineer who hated motorbicycles... You can read the whole story at wikipedia <a class="post-url" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespa" target="_blank">here</a>

Under what circumstances?

"The idea was to design a cheap vehicle for the masses"