EJ or the later EH? Several years ago, I posed the question: Can somebody please explain the difference between an EJ and an EH Holden ute or van? The response at the time wasn't overwhelming, so I did a bit of Googling and ferreting through my photos and came up with my own rough guide to EJ and EH identification. Sedans and wagons are easy to tell apart ; the EH's vertical rectangular tail lights are a dead give-away. However, the workhorse versions of both models share the rear-end treatment of the earlier EJ, making it harder to identify one from the other. No super obvious hints here. Or here ... . It turns out that the main clues are in the placement of the front H O L D E N lettering and GMH lion emblems, the style of the radiator grille and the width of the vents in front of the windscreen, with all EJs - sedans, wagons, utes and vans - having one combination and the EH line-up having th...
As far as UMPH knows, there was never any such thing as a Mazda RX6 . Google doesn't seem to think they exist, either, and, if confirmation were required, neither does Wikipedia. However, if there were such a beast, the RX6 would almost certainly have been based on the 626 like the one featured here, the logic being that the first rotary-powered Mazda readily available in Australia was the R100 , which shared its body with the 1000 coupe of that time. It was followed by the Capella -based RX2 in both coupe and sedan styles; the RX3 , with its two- and four-door bodies common to the 808 ; and the RX4 and RX5 which were more or less a rotary-engined 929 s (two distinct versions, though, with the later RX5 being coupe only). Chronologically, the next step would seem to have been a 626 -based RX6 . Adding weight to the theory is that the 626 had both a coupe and a sedan in its range, following the precedent set from the RX2 on (and even the R...
The culprit. It all started with James' immaculate 1982 Bertone-spec X1/9. Next there was a Fiat Polski 126 - we won't let a minor geographical technicality spoil our theme - a classic Fiat 500 and Rino's Series 1 Fiat X1/9 making its second consecutive appearance ... . A quick look around the Long Beach car park quite quickly revealed there were enough Fiats, Maseratis, Alfas, Lancias and Ferraris to devote today's coverage of Hobart's regular first-Sunday-of-the-month Classics by The Beach entirely to Italian marques, so that's what we're doing! James hasn't had his fuel-injected X1/9 for long - it's not his first example of the model, though - having bought it in Melbourne in a fully restored state. The paint and bright work are superb, the engine bay is surgically clean and the predominantly leather interior is great nick, too. It's wearing a lovely set of Cromodora CD-16s that set it off perfectly. Being a Polski* ...
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