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The timing of this project couldn’t have been better, as caring for my Mum whilst witnessing her daily decline pushed my stress levels to the max. I desperately needed respite and this came in the form of using my pent-up anxiety cutting the living daylights out of this little Fiat. Although the body work was finished before my Mum died, the Jolly did not go on the road until 2013.
I did use this little car a few times, and it was a lot of fun cruising round Poole Harbour peninsula pretending I had a Riva moored just offshore, but in all honesty, the real pleasure was the fact that I had put so much effort into attaining the correct level of detail, that she fooled everyone. Specialists, magazines and valuers all took her to be original and that’s a compliment.
The real pleasure was the fact that I had put so much effort into attaining the correct level of detail that she fooled everyone...
The early ‘Nuevo’ Jolly always had large, white wall crossplies with large aluminium hubcaps. The wicker seats were woven by an older man who was taught the art by the man who used to weave them at the Fiat factory. ALL PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE BY STEVE BARON
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