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Car Enthusiasts' Monthly Drive and Lunch: July, 2018

Winter in Tasmania can get quite nippy.  However, that rarely prevents a reasonable turn-out for the car enthusiasts' drive and lunch that departs from the 3C Church in Anglesea Street, South Hobart, around 11:00 am on of the third Wednesday of each month.  July's event was no exception, with many attendees and their beautiful cars gathering for coffee in the 3C cafe before they all headed south into the Channel area for lunch at Oyster Cove.  Making the event even better was the addition of several cars that haven't participated before.     The lovely Triumph Herald featured above and below was one such vehicle.  According to its owner, the car was a gift from a farmer to the Dover District High School where it was restored by students.  There was quite a bit of chat about the origins of the car's front end ; the owner says it's off a Vitesse (in effect, a six-cylinder Herald ) but one chap said he'd been given to understand there was a quad-light ve