It may look funny, but this is a real war-prepped Vespa: the Vespa 150 TAP. TAP stands for Troupes Aero Portees, as this weird scooter was designed to reach the military theater by being parachuted ...
In the 1950s France, in the midst of dealing with insurgencies in its colonies in Algeria and Indochina, recognized a military need for easily transportable artillery that could quickly be deployed to ...