History

Vespa Club of Monterey (VCoM)

Founded in 2006 by Roger Vandevert, Ken Jones, and Charles Hamper.

In 2004, Roger was bit by the scooter bug and bought his first Vespa P125X from a young couple in Ft Ord. It looked bad and had been dumped a lot, but  went through a metamorphosis of new parts, paint and retrofitting a Polini 177 kit.

Roger began to seek out other scooterists and met Charles Hamper, of the old R-Scooter Club, and most recently Ken Jones who had finally decided to stop just looking at Vespas and start riding one. Ken bought his GT in September of 2005 and was also seeking a Club. After a year or so of coffee-get-togethers, it was decided to take a leap forward and reformulate the mostly disbanded R-Scooter Club into the new VCoM!