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  Introducing the Roller Wagen, the car you drive when your regular wedding limousine is that tiny bit too large to negotiate medieval Tuscan streets.  And what a beauty it is: a classic Pantheon grille, what appear to be genuine wire-spoked wheels and a convertible top allowing uninterrupted views of all that magnificent Mediterranean scenery.  Che bella macchina! Grazie, signora Cat! Did you enjoy this post?  If so, why not browse the rest of the uppermiddlepetrolhead site?  There are loads and loads of classic, sports and performance vehicles featured, as well as stacks of car shows and motorsports events.  Even better, you can follow either the 'blog itself or do so via Upper Middle Petrol Head's Facebook page.   And please do like, comment and share! U M P H ( uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au .)

Today's images come to you courtesy of Correspondent McBeard, who's currently exercising his inner-lumberjack in Canada.  We're not subscribing to any particular theme - "big" might cover it if we were - but it's mainly "because."   Because in an Australian market, this Mercury 100 would be a Ford F100.   And because the eponymous Jeff, from Aussie YouTube channel Home Built by Jeff , happens to being using an almost identical vehicle to build his Frankenhauler project truck ( https://youtu.be/-DMlfB8spSg?si=nt62y5KsNowbbZEf ). Because we at UMPH love this classic Jeep Cherokee. ... and he's OK! Because where else on the planet do you see snow coaches like these? And because even though Canada's very, very much NOT the USA - which is just as well, given McBeard's social media profile - their fascination with big-arse American utes (pickups) is as impressive as the country itself. Did you enjoy this post?  If so, why not browse the rest of...

  When too many Renault 4s are barely enough!  Today's beauty - brought to us by OMiT - is the second example he's snapped in as many weeks and the third to grace the pages of this 'blog (links available at the bottom of the page). The plastic grille suggests that it's a post-1974 version, as the two previous iterations (1961-67 and '67-74) wore metal air intakes, the first with multiple vertical bars and the second featuring a single horizontal aluminium slat ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4 , accessed 28 SEP 25) .  There's not much otherwise to externally differentiate between examples built during the model's 33 year, 8,000,000 unit production run.     Yes. That's eight million Renault 4s, which is why they're not an uncommon sight even today, some thirty years after production ended in Slovenia (ibid.).  They're cultishly popular in Madagascar, too, as the following two excellent DW Rev videos demonstrate: https://youtu.be/kOJGg4XvuJ...