Les Anciennes Fleuries - Fiat 500
Pretty sure this is a Fiat 500. So tiny, isn't it? They were made between 1957 and 1975. Their predecessor was the Fiat Topolino and you'll be seeing one of those too, decorated with palm trees!
I have a friend in Monaco, well over six feet tall and he used to drive around in a purple version of this car - a tight squeeze you might say and you'd be right. One day it died in a fire. He loved and mourned that car.
I have a friend in Monaco, well over six feet tall and he used to drive around in a purple version of this car - a tight squeeze you might say and you'd be right. One day it died in a fire. He loved and mourned that car.
What a nice collection of old car you've got here! I especially like the last red one.
ReplyDeleteJilly, Just when I thought they couldn't get any cuter, you went and stole my heart away with this red beauty. . .and I don't even LIKE Fiats! As adorable as a puppy!
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Seattle Daily Photo
What, no pretty lady for this one?
ReplyDeleteA little red car!! PERFECT!! Yes, I have a thing for red... ;-) I love all these cars bedecked in flowers that you have been showing us. We have car shows here in Maine too, but never with the flowers. Maybe I'll have to mention that to somebody. We're missing out!
ReplyDeleteWhen I got married, our car was a tiny Fiat 500 just like this one, only white! It had flowers on the front exactly in the same position.
ReplyDeleteWe sat in there: me and my husband (1 meter and 97 cm tall!) in the back and our two friends in the front... four of us!!!
Voila la mariée. Elle est très belle cette photo. Je préfère vraiment cette version a la toute nouvelle
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute Bambino, - they, like the Topolino are true collectors cars now.
ReplyDeleteThat's a fantastic restoration, (but I'm not sure about the reference to Menton Taxis on the bumper bar?)
Quite the Italian colours; red white and green.
Viva Bambino !
Monsieur le Président,
You must put on your reading glasses. There is a very pretty girl in the passenger's seat!
I'd love to see a picture of your friend getting into that car :)
ReplyDeleteThose flowers!
Oh, un pot de yaourt! This is the name given to this car! This red one is lovely and so shining...Have you seen the new one?
ReplyDeleteYour last posts are very handsome, très "Côte d'Azur"...
Yes Alice, the glamour is there, Riviera style, in this beautiful series. Bravo Jilly, it's wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThanks also for your visit in Avignon Jilly and for defending the Vagina Monologues with such talent and gusto. You even convinced M.Lincoln of Brookville that he should see it, should the opportunity arise in Ohio... Brilliant!
The practice of putting flowers on a car is a curious one, isn't it...although quite attractive, especially in this case. Perhaps it's just the car??!!
ReplyDeleteAs they say, good things come in small packages ;-)
ReplyDeleteCute as a Bug...but a Fiat!
A friend of mine in H.S. had a green convertible Fiat...I loved that car almost as much as she did. I enjoyed seeing the Renault, too...my first car was a Renault.
ReplyDeleteHi Jilly - thanks for all the recent comments on "Zurich" daily photo. I've been lazy and haven't visited for a while but if I'd known all these cars were here.......
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember you talking about your Chelsea days and your MG before - maybe it was on z's site
At the risk of littering this post with links, I notice the Topolino reference, and that has also appeared on Zurich Daily Photo. Coincidence that I dropped in today
These are so cute but I have to say that your friend must have been a masochist!
ReplyDeleteMy stang once caught fire as I was driving it. I was rescued by a truck driver who stopped, put out the flame then hopped back into his rig without a word. My brother came to rescue me.
ReplyDeleteI owned two of them. Yuk :-)
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