Upper Middle Petrol Head:

  Forty odd years ago, nearly all my mates' girlfriends drove Geminis or Corollas.  Mrs UMPH had a Gemini, too:  a light blue TE .  A lot of blokes also owned hotted-up versions, usually fitted with a dash-mounted tacho, a dished SAAS steering wheel, a scorpion or eight-ball gear knob, a louvre, a set of fat  Hotwires shod with Goodrich T/A s, and a loud exhaust.  Sadly, they're so rare these days, the bloke who bought this ripper TX in 1975 - when it was just three months old - says he only knows of one other in the greater Launceston area and there wouldn't be many more than that down south, either.  U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) iPhone image. 

The April '21 installment of Classics by the Beach kicked off bright and early, possibly due to the disparity between the indicative post-daylight savings time and the reality of attendees' sleep patterns!  It may be that lots of people are commonly there at 9:00 am but, personally speaking, I doubt that I've ever fronted up that early in the six or more years that I've racked-up as a semi-regular attendee.   As usual, there were a number of cars that knocked me sockless, not the least of which was the beautiful HR Premier shown above and below.  Chris' Bentley also shone, as did the amazing S series Valiant (the model after the push button transmission version) depicted further down the page, plus an EH, a World War 2 Jeep and a number of other rippers. The uppermiddlepetrolhead editorial team don't generally theme their offerings, preferring instead to present what they find, where they find it and not to focus too much on anything specific.  However, if there