> Sounds like you are into scooters. My friends has a motorized one, one time he left it at my house and the battery died so i had to push it back to his.... ohter than that i dont know alot abouc scooters

Wrong kind of scooters.

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The scooters that I collect are at least 25 years old. My oldest scooters are about 56 years old. You ride them sitting down. They have engines of 9 horsepower or less. Sometimes much less. Most of them are American made Cushman motor scooters made in Lincoln, Nebraska, between 1936 and 1965, but I also have some Italian-made Vespas.

Back in the middle part of the 20th century, motor scooters were used for basic transportation.
The one Porky Pig rides appears to be an Autoglide, which was made by Cushman before WWII. In that period shortly after the war, cars were hard to come by. When gasoline rationing ended, the demand for transportation increased greatly, and the car manufactures were still retooling from war-time vehicles to civilian cars. Anything that ran sold. Cushman was at full production, because the scooters that they made for the military were not very different from the civilian scooters. They sold them as fast as they could make them.

In some resort areas such as Hawaii, Key West, Santa Catalina, etc., motor scooters are still an important means of transportation. Look for them in warmer climates. Modern scooters make my vintage scoots look ancient, which I guess they are.
Howard