![]() ![]() [ featured photo credit: Frank Kuzmanich. God, this machine just curls my little toes. I tell him I’m coming to pick up the damn scooter and if he sells it to anyone else he’s going to regret that decision for the rest of his brief and painful life. THIS GUY! I’m at the end of my rope with this guy. I know it’s him because the photo posted in the ad is one I took in Joni’s back yard. When what I’m sure is Arson shows up on. He tells me it’s urgent he unload this thing - the very same scooter he refused to sell me for the past two years - so he can’t wait.Ī week later the ad is taken down so I assume Arson is gone.Īnother scooting season passes and I’m back on the classifieds search for an Atomic Fireball Stella (slightly saddened because it won’t be Arson, but oh well). WTF? Really? So I email this guy and tell him I want the damn scooter but I need two weeks to get the rest of the money. This liquid sugar sticks to each grain of sugar, making a hard candy shell. The candy maker, called the panner, adds liquid sugar to the rotating pan. Each piece of candy is formed around a single grain of sugar that is added to the pan. Until I pulled up an ad for Arson - MY Arson - on Boise Craigslist. Atomic Fireballs are made in large rotating pans that are heated by a gas flame. I continued to monitor my various sources of Fireball scooter classifieds over the next year hoping for one in the Pacific Northwest. Something about his kids pitching a fit when they found out he listed it. Was I?! The stack of bills nestled in my mattress says yes.īut fate twisted cruelly again and this particular fellow decided to keep the scooter and not sell it after all. He discovered Scooter Lust while looking for information on the Atomic Fireball Stella and he wrote to see if I was interested in buying the Fireball back. But the following spring I received an email from the fellow who purchased Arson. In a cruel twist of fate, she revealed that she’d sold Arson that morning to a fellow in Idaho. ![]() When my funding threshold was reached, I told Joni. So I started a Fireball fund in case my stars aligned and I had both access and means. There were 150 of these Atomic Fireball Stellas made in 2005, so there are a few floating around that hit the market every few months, sometimes even within driving-distance. I lusted after that scooter with a ferocity I only experienced with the Frankenstella when we were young. We dubbed the new scooter “Arson” and she rode him quite a bit that following summer. I mean, the coin tray even comes filled with Fireball candies for the love of God. They’re here and going fast (and will go fast for you as well!) so contact your Genuine Dealer and put a deposit down soon! The Atomic Fireball Stella features a racing-style seat, yellow powdercoated rims, red powdercoated hubs, custom flame graphics, “raised” gearing for higher top speeds, Fireball mudflap, new grips, a coin tray, and more… It’s the hottest scooter on the block! Which is a fabulous image in itself: giant fluffy bunny ripping around the alleys of Seattle on a collectible two-stroke scooter with a flame job.įrom the Genuine website: Ferrara Pan Candies and Genuine Scooters present: Atomic Fireball Stella! So like a hundred years ago (okay, maybe it was 10) my friend Joni got an Atomic Fireball Genuine Stella scooter for Easter. ![]()
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