the count's car

I searched for the information and found the same conflicting info posted above. LOL

Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies

I am watching The Barefoot Contessa right now on TV and wondered about the make of car that Maria Vargas drives -- the two-tone green convertible.. You are correct, alfonsp, that it is a 1953 Fiat 1400 Ghia convertible. The IMCDb website cited above by pcg also has a still picture of that car from the movie. It's at -- http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_65951-Fiat-1400-Ghia-1953.html

Did anyone notice that the Count's car, the Alfa-Romeo 6C 2500, is RIGHT-hand-drive, while Maria's car, the Fiat 1400 Ghia, is LEFT-hand-drive?

Although Italy drives to the right, like the U.S. with the steering wheel normally on the left side, some Italian manufacturers, like Alfa-Romeo and Lancia up until the 1960's, mounted the steering wheel on the right, like English cars.

This was done to making driving on Alpine-like mountain roads safer. If you are driving on the right side, outside lane, of a narrow mountain road, you can see the edge of the road much easier...especially at night lit only by car headlights....if you sit and steer from the right side of the car.

Big Italian trucks, I understand, often use this system to this day.