Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Thematic Photographic 145: Vehicular

Ok then. I've just got back from a three-week holiday in Italy, so I have to post pictures from a visit to the Ferrari museum near Parma :

1949

1951

1959



1966


And a representative example of that other Italian beauty, the Fiat:

You can find other vehicular posts here.

9 comments:

  1. Ahhh, Italian cars! When I was 10 my family spent a few months in Italy and I fell madly in love with the Fiat 850, which I called the "Squash-back Fiat". Great pictures, and thanks for bringing back the memory.

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  2. Wonderful! What fun cars. :)

    Welcome back; we've missed you.
    I'm curious about your three-week break in the autumn for school, though. You'll have to explain your school schedule a bit to us teachers after you give us all the grand travel photos. :)

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  3. Hey, welcome back! Hope you had a wonderful time.

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  4. Oh my goodness these are just spiffy! Especially the last one, not my color but it's so cute! this must have been very fun to see...what a great group of photos, well done and just in time for TP. I hate to say it but I just got mine in seconds ago for vehicular! But I AM SO HAPPY to see you posted here and on Max's..welcome back, you've been missed!

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  5. Oh, Oh, Oh! Love me some Ferrari, me do mmm hmm. In the late 70's I lived a couple of blocks from a Ferrari showroom. They always impressed me.

    Nice shots.

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  6. Thanks Karen. Ihave been trying to comment for the last couple of days, on your blog and others', but Blogger has been really playing up!!

    There were 3 other comments here before, but they've disappeared now.... :(

    Sally - I'm not a motor-head, but they WERE totally cool. I enjoyed seeing the road cars more than the racing ones
    :D

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  7. I guess mine was one of the ones that got lost in cyber-blogger oblivion. I'll re-create it word for word (ha) from memory:
    Gotta love them Italian cars! We spent 3 months in Italy when I was about 11, and it wasn't a Ferrari I fell in love with - it was the old Fiat 850 that I lovingly called the "Squashback Fiat".
    Thanks for the great pictures, and the memory flashback.

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  8. Thanks for the re-post, Max!

    My first car was the good old Fiat 500 - in Italy they say that Fiat in the early days stood for "Fix it again, Tony". Mine used to regularly break down at intersections!

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  9. I love cars. I've had a bunch of cars in my life.
    I always tend to bond on some level with the steel, glass and rubber.

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