Fiat’s Easter Parade

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Easter, first and foremost, is celebrated to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but folk now associate it with lots of other things besides. There are Easter parades, Easter shows, Easter fêtes and Easter festivals, and the colour yellow is for some reason strongly associated with all of them.

This cool picture therefore looks like it may have been taken at an indoor Easter classic car show, but it wasn't that. It was supposedly taken in 1966 at the Turin Motor Show, capturing the Fiat display. We see a beautiful 2300 Coupé nearest to the camera, plus a Dino Spider, 124 Spider and 124 Coupé, with the car at the back most probably being a Dino Coupé.

What we really like about them is that they are all painted the same bright yellow hue - Giallo Positano, we believe, named after a beautiful village upon a hillside at the Amalfi Coast. It's just as well Fiat wasn't English, or else we could have ended up with Clacton-on-Sea Yellow.

Why is it, though, that we associate that colour so much with Easter? Apparently, yellow is used to represent divine light and the glory of the resurrection, besides the familiar secular associations with fire and precious things which may, literally or metaphorically, be described as 'golden'. Whether or not you think old Fiats are 'divine' is entirely a matter of personal opinion, but they're certainly very precious!

Enjoy the Easter weekend!

Words: Jeroen Booij

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