Upper Middle Petrol Head:

These photos were lifted from the Italian Correspondente's Facebook page so that they could be shared beyond his immediate FB friends.  And to save anyone the tedium of wading through all the footy-related nonsense he has on there, too. Regular readers will remember that the IC believed that the painting had been completed, only to be told by the spray-man that he wasn't happy with the finish and wanted to do it again.  If only everyone had the same level of commitment to their trade! Anyway, I won't bang on about it.  The painter's happy with it, the IC is ecstatic and anyone that can't see why is a picky bastard indeed! U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolherad.blogspot.com.au.) Photos supplied.

Some people think there are two kinds of Minis:  old ones and new ones.  But did you know that there are actually Morris Minis, Austin Minis, Wolseley Minis, Riley Minis, Innocenti Minis and Rover Minis - what you might consider to be the "old" Minis?  They're all real Minis, I promise!  Of course, there are also Mini Mokes.  And then there are "new" Minis, as produced by BMW since 2001.     Other than an Innocenti Mini - the Italian version of Sir Alec Issigonis' iconic design - all of the above were on show at Tasmania's 2019 MiniFest.  Pretty much all the variations were present, too, from the classic two-box that we all know and love, through to vans, a wooden-framed Traveller (in essence, a station wagon version of the van), Clubmans and Cooper S s.     One version that I had hoped to see - a classic  Broadspeed fast-back - wasn't represented.  However, I do know that there is an immaculate blue one in Tasmania that's occas