Vespa PK

The Vespa PK is a range of small-frame scooters that Piaggio built under the Vespa brand from 1982 to 1996. It was first shown at Intermot in Cologne in 1982 to replace the 50 and Primavera models that had been in production since the late 1960s. The PK had two drum brakes, an air-cooled single-cylinder engine, electronic ignition and a steel chassis, and was sold as the PK50, PK S 50, PK125 and PK125S, with PK80 and PK100 versions for export. The first Vespa with automatic transmission, the 125 PK S Automatica, appeared at the Milan show in 1983. A restyle in 1985 brought the XL and XLS models, the 50 XL Rush of 1987 was raised to 2.3 horsepower for new Italian traffic rules, and the final FL2 face lift came in 1992.