This is a great photo for a lot of reasons which I probably don't have to point out to you... however, there is one detail that you probably missed. Check out the side of the scooter, did you notice that pedal sticking out there? I bet you didn't... probably because your eyes were looking elsewhere. This just happens to be one of the rare French market Vespa 50's which had a pedal-start mechanism. I guess French laws made them cheaper or easier to get a license or something if they were classified as a moped. They look strange, and I'll see if I can dig up a photo of what the mechanism looks like.
Sorry, maybe it is an Spanish Vespa 50, because in Spain all mopeds must have pedals until '80. That's the reason because in Spain the Vespa 50 is a oddity and we had many 75 ccm models, because they don't have to had pedals and were allowed to be driven with a restricted license to 75 ccm.
Cheers
Luis
Oh wow, thanks for the comment. I did not know that the Motovespa 50 had pedals too. Very interesting!
Those shoes are more suitable for peddling than they are for pedaling.