Out for a Jolly: Flickr photo of the day

Once upon a time, Fiat, with a little help from design house Ghia, made a limited edition car called the 600 Jolly. The term "Jolly" presumably resembles something like "ridiculous" in Italian. It was ridiculous because they chopped the roof off a Fiat 600, removed the doors, fitted it with whicker seats (because whicker was the carbon-fiber of 1958, or something), and attached a canopy from what appeared to be a beach umbrella. It was the most idiotic thing you could do to a car. And yet they sold upwards of 100, with some landing work as a Catalina Island taxi, while others appeared on the yachts of the well-heeled.