Upper Middle Petrol Head:

UMPH is at a loss to know where to begin.  There were so many wonderful cars at this year's Picnic at Ross, it would be impossible to cover them all or to even try.  So, to take a leaf out of Swade's book (or should be a 'page out of his blog'? -  http://www.swadeology.com/2015/05/2015-picnic-at-ross/ ), UMPH is just going to go with a few of the vehicles that particularly appealed to him ...  This early 70s Ford Transit belongs to good friends of UMPH.  It was originally purchased in Britain, whereupon its owner and his wife drove it to Western Australia, via the Middle East.  One of the great stories that attaches to  Mrs Thatcher , as she's affectionately now known, is that whilst driving through Iraq, its owner noticed that the temperature was rising rather rapidly.  Upon inspection, he discovered that a hole had been shot through its radiator.  Being a practical sort of bloke - an engineer, so the story goes - he soldered it up road-side and resumed hi