Citroen Mehari: Camel of the Cote D’Azur.
This quirkily French take on the Mini Moke is a Citroen Mehari . Named after an apparently quite fast dromedary, it’s powered by a monster 602 cc flat two cylinder engine (the same one used in the 2CV), weighs in at a corpulent 535 kg and is made of ABS plastique. I think it’s pretty cool in a Gallic kind of way. Ironically, this one was photographed in Italy, just over the border from France, whereas the Fiat 500 Jolly featured last week ( https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2023/07/fiat-500-jolly.html ) wa s snapped on the French side of the boundary between the two countries. Not that it’s much of a border; crossing from bon jour to buona giornata is about as auspicious as passing through the Flannelette Curtain from New Town to Moonah, but without the sudden abundance of car yards, muffler shops and smash repair businesses. It is, quite literally , a stroll. Unless you’re an asylum-seeker, that is! The French police...