The Vespa was invented in the 1950's by an Italian helicopter designer. Vespucci's 1997 take on this earthbound craft was meant to bring flight back into the Vespa. Vespucci ran 7 different motorbikes off a cliff near turin and painted the one that survived the resulting crash best. "It is fitting it was the blue one," he said, "because that one is the creature of the sky.