Upper Middle Petrol Head:

  Here's a quickie but an ultra-goodie from 2022's instalment of Auto Italia, Australia's biggest and arguably best Italian car show.  According to the Canberra Correspondent - who has provided exclusive coverage of this year's event - the car is a genuine 128 Rallye and has been owned by the one family since it arrived in Australia.   As the photos show, it's immaculate.  Also of interest is that the family member who presented it at the show says it was the very last Rallye of the four officially brought into this country. Further photos from 2022's Auto Italia will follow.  In the meantime, why not check out the rest of the Upper Middle Petrol Head site?  There are loads and loads of classic, sports and performance cars from all the best manufacturers around the world. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) iPhone images by the Canberra Correspondent.

April 2022's Classics by the Beach features, as far as I can tell, an entirely new fleet of cars, with none having to my knowledge appeared on uppermiddlepetrolhead before.  This is likely due to an influx of mainland vehicles - like this striking 1930s’ Ford - touring the state and dropping in for the monthly get-together at Sandy Bay, before attending a hotrod festival later in the month.    AJ sticking his head out of a nonexistent sunroof! There were also a heap of local cars, many of which I'd not seen before.  The 109" Landy, featured immediately below, a lovely Bug Eye Sprite and a nifty but quirkily French Citroen station wagon were particularly interesting, as were a couple more cars and a motorcycle you'll see further down the page. Here's the Citroen I mentioned before.  As best as I can tell, it's a GS hailing from the 1970s and was more commonly seen in hatchback style.  Its owner tells me that it's powered by a small air-cooled flat-four cylin