PVCC Parliament House Lawns Car Display: Saturday the 12th of January, 2019

I normally try to keep a handle on when the various Hobart-based car clubs' annual displays are on. However, I only happened upon the Post Vintage Car Club's Parliament House show by accident and I'm really pleased that I did!

For those who don't know about the PVCC, they're the group who organise what's almost certainly Tasmania's biggest, and arguably best, car display - the Picnic at Ross (http://www.postvintage-tas.org/picnic-at-ross/) - usually held on the 3rd Sunday of May each year on the local oval. This year's event, scheduled for Sunday the 28th of April, is going to be located in the town centre, so it's atypical on two fronts!

I've already featured one car from the PVCC's 2019 Parliament House display - Eddie's magnificent Monza red Mk 1 Lotus Cortina replica (https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2019/01/mk-1-lotus-cortina-replica.html?q=x1/9) - but there were plenty more cars I could have included. The three shown here - this stylish Triumph TR250, a lovely Peugeot 404 and an absolutely mint HK Holden Premier - are great examples of the excellent vehicles on show on the day.

And it's not that the cars that I haven't included are in any way inferior to those I've chosen to include; it's just that most of them have already featured elsewhere on this 'blog. Many of them are regular sights at cars shows throughout southern Tasmania, or have been at the Picnic, and all of them are fabulous!

So, please remember: 2019's Picnic at Ross is going to be on Sunday the 28th of April, in the town centre, and not on the third Sunday in May, on the oval. I don't know why this is but I expect the weather might just be a bit kinder to us all.

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