Upper Middle Petrol Head:

Aussies love their EH Holdens!  But if there's one thing they love even more, it's hotted-up EH Holdens, like the one shown here, resplendent in metallic bluey-purple-ish paint! Like any classic hotted-up EH, the car also featured a set of fat mags, an HR disc brake front end, a dash-mounted tacho and gauges, a wooden three-spoke sports steering wheel, a floor-shift 'box and bucket seats.  The biggish exhaust suggests that the engine has undergone some work, in keeping with the general performance-enhanced theme.  Love your EHs, too (there are several more featured on this 'blog)?  How about other Holdens, Fords, Chryslers or classic Japanese, Italian or British marques?  Just use the search facility (magnifying glass icon) in the top right hand corner of the page or just have a browse. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.)

This magnificent ocean-liner of a Chevrolet was photographed at the 2018 Bream Creek Show, about an hour's drive east of Tasmania's capital city, Hobart. According to its gentleman owner, the car is ex-Queensland, having been in Tasmania for less than a year.   It's an Australian manufactured vehicle, produced by General Motors-Holdens Ltd, who had by that stage become a subsidiary of GM's operations in the United States of America.    To say the car was perfect would be to significantly understate the amazing quality of of its restoration ; every single aspect - from its paint, chrome and interior - were absolutely pristine and a true credit to whoever did the work and the current owner's diligent attention to detail in keeping it looking so fabulous.   U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.)

Is pink really a girls' colour?  UMPH suggests that this spectacular, very manly, extremely tough Charger puts an emphatic end to any speculation there may be about the question!  (Unless pink is really 'magenta', it's been teamed with black and is associated with a certain Hobart all-boys' school * , that is, eh, David and Naff?!). The owner told UMPH that the car had only just arrived in Hobart, having been purchased on mainland Australia, and had already attracted a lot of attention on Facebook and other classic car forums.  He was en route to Transport Tasmania to collect its new rego plates, so expect to see a lot more of the car in and around the southern part of the state.  It won't be easy to miss! U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) *  Getta woman, getta woman, getta woman if ya can.  If ya can't getta woman, getta  H______s man!

Thanks  go to uppermiddlepetrolhead correspondent SJS for these photos of the car display at the 2018 King Island Show, held annually on the first Tuesday of March.    The owner of this stunning LJ Torana was in the throes of packing and preparing for his relocation from Western Australia to King Island - a move from one side of our vast continent to the other (and down a bit!) - when his neighbour advertised the car for sale. Having admired it for a number of years, he did what any sensible person would do and bought it immediately. Now it's doing its bit to make a spectacular island in the middle of Bass Strait that bit more beautiful! King Island has a thriving classic car scene, as we saw with last year's photos of a lovely FC Holden (https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/readers-photos-5-fc-holden-king-island.html). The range of cars on the island is quite diverse, as the following photos show, ranging from the Mark I...

This Alfa Giulia Super has graced Hobart's classic car scene for many, many years now.  It's a great-looking, straight, rust-free and totally original car that owner Nigel loves to drive. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.)