Chris and I spent this past Saturday driving around in teeny, tiny blue Fiat which is a 1971 (or 72) Fiat 500L, in Italy known as a Cinquecento. The 'L' stands for Luxury. Luxury means I can fit inside the car. Oh, and it has windshield wipers and carpeting.This little Fiat car has a name, Pepino (given to the car by it's owner) (who is not Chris). Pepino means "I don't give a damn" or cucumber in Spanish. But because this an Italian car, Pepino is the Italian word for pepper or a little mouse. (Me? I'm sticking with that first Spanish translation). Chris said that the Italians have also referred to the car as a belly button. Those Italians ...what imagination!? (Side note: Chris has a name for one of his Fiats. He endearingly refers to his car as "pezzo di caca verde.")
If Chrysler and Fiat get married as (I hope) they'll do, the car that Chrysler will make in the U.S. will be a car very similar to Pepino. Can't you see all of us driving around in teeny, tiny cars (once again) (saving gas) (we don't have anyway) (though if we all die of the swine flu, none of this will matter) (the few of us that are left can use what remains of the gas we have saved by killing off everyone with swine flu) (you know this is a plausible conspiracy theory) (admit it) (I wonder if See's will still make candy after the pandemic) (OMG! no more carnitas!?)?
Of course if Chrysler goes into bankruptcy you'll have to forget about Fiat (again) and (continue to) live vicariously through Chris and his hobby as I do.
10 comments:
Aw! It's so cute!!!! I would drive around in one.
I am SO going to use "cucumber" as a swear word the first chance I get.
Ya know, I've been pretty calm about this swine flu thing but even questioning whether or not See's will still be around after the epidemic has struck like a lightening bolt.
Adorable car...probably has a sexy Italian accent too.
Hey, Sees candy??????
This is indeed getting serious. I haven't heard anything about Sees Candy--but if eating Sees somehow gives you swine flu, then screw it, I'm getting swine flu.
Oh, and that bellybutton car is totally adorable.
My wife had a Fiat many years ago. Her father bought it for her because he thought it was the kind of cute little car a college girl should have. When she opened the glove box for the first time, she found a full toolkit in there; it came standard. She remembers thinking "This is NOT a good sign." It wasn't.
I've had neighbors who were big on Italian cars. And they enjoyed working on cars. And this is a good thing, because if you have an Italian car you will work on it _a lot._
I love the car.
can I get it in purple with girly skulls all over it?
I thought if some of us were left after most of the world died from this flu (You notice how I'm still among the non-dead) we'd have to use the leftover gas to burn the bodies.
The car looks cool.
love the belly button part! Perfect!!
So, are you tellin me that Fiat has NOT changed it's design for 30 years or more? Doesn't sound very Italian to me..the fashionistas of the planet.
hugs
It looks like with the way Fiat is buying the American car companies, we will all be driving "Fiats" soon :-)
I did really like my red 124 spyder, although it eventually sounded like the percussion section of an orchestra when going down the road!
Yeah, I kind of like it. I also liked the paragraph composed almost entirely of parentheticals. Made me laugh out loud. (And you know I really did, because I spelled the words - I didn't just write "LOL.")
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