KY's Mighty P2 Page "NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO TO LIVE RIDE AND SURVIVE THERE ARE STILL THINGS THAT MAKE US ALL THE SAME YOU, ME, THEM, EVERYBODY... EVERYBODY... -ELWOOD BLUES . My name is really Daniel although my friends call me Ky (it's a long story and it is'nt what you think). I am relatively new to the world of scootering. I bought my first Vespa P200 at the beginning of last summer but then found another "Belladonna 13" and decided to sell my first scoot to my mate Dave in Omaha. I am a senior majoring in Art at Fort Lewis College in Durango Colorado U.S.A. I dig a lot of things but twisted art, bottomless cups of coffee, good music,checkered scooters and my girlfriend (Alyssa) are definitely in my top ten, though not necessarily in that order. But this page is only for the scoot. This is her story as I know it... Two Scooter boys, Scott Vermiere and Daniel Reike, were driving through the desert of northern New Mexico when they came across an old rusted sign that said "SCOOTERS". Behind the sign there was an old shed,and inside there were two white Vespa P200s in mint condition for sale for $2000 each. Daniel and Scott spread the word of their discovery to a certain man known only by the alias "Zelda" from Santa Fe who bought it for the asking price. Now "Zelda" had watched Quadrophenia too many times (if that's possible) and called a certain mail order scooter shop that wishes to remain nameless (though the owner is an unpopular subject in certain circles, which, for matters of security, will too remain nameless) and exclaimed... "Give me stuff to make me MOD!" The afore mentioned but unnamed scooter shop proceeds in sending him the ten mirrors, crash bars St. Christopher mud flap, Checkerboard decals, fly screen.etcetera etcetera.... Zelda then appropriated some blue fog lights and strips of blue lights for the floorboard from a Pep Boys Auto parts store. The custom black diamond seat was commissioned from B&M Upholstery for $75. She still has all this stuff to this day. The scooter was once used in a flyer for "Boom," a Mod night at a Santa Fe club. The Scoots name, "Belladonna," came from a Vargas pin-up that was stuck to the fly screen, which has long since ben replaced with another. I felt that Belladonna was an appropriate name, as it means "beautiful lady" in Italian (Vespas are Italian made). Belladonna is also another name for the poisonous plant Deadly Nightshade. Deadly Nightshade is nick-named Belladonna because Italian women used the poison-plant to dilate their pupils, which was considered very sexy and in fashion for the time... While enjoying a cup of coffee at Fred's Bagels in Albuquerque, NM, a bad Polaroid of a white scooter with more mirrors than horse-power attached to a flyer which stated it's many attributes, low mileage and price caught my eye. After a week of playing phone tag I met "Zelda" and Belladonna in a Santa Fe mall parking lot. Within twenty minutes we exchanged money and title and she came home with me. I added some goodies like chrome grips, tinted turn signal covers and new tires. I had the engine tuned with a malossi 210 kit, a slightly larger carb, cut crank, amd PM evolution exhaust. Scott Vermiere of the Nomads S.C. did his magic with the matching and porting not to mention cutting the crank. Daniel Rieke, of the Young Ones Scooter Society, helped me stick the monster back together,fine tune the jetting ect...All that is left is to think of kick ass paint job. Some swanky links... the best Vespa site ever! the best scooter magazine ever the best scooter list ever the official piaggio page Mad Mod Molly's Lounge a kick ass SKA band the specials good tunes nice guys and great brews if I could be any one in the world I'd be Sean Connery e-mail me dewright@f