Upper Middle Petrol Head:

This seriously tough, Western Australian-registered four wheel drive HZ Holden station wagon is a long, long way from home!  Or is it ... ? If the car's what I believe it to be - and it very probably is, there not being huge numbers of 4WD HJ - HZ Holden manufacturers out there - it may have actually made a home-coming to the island state where it was built.  And yes, I mean Tasmania. I won't bog you down here with the finer details (there are two links attached that provide more detail if you are interested) but in the 1970s, a bloke named Arthur Hayward - owner of Tasmanian company Vehicle Engineering and Modifications (VEM) - started building 4WD Holden Overlander vans, utes and one-tonners in his Launceston factory.  Later on, he expanded his range to include wagons. To my inexpert eye, this looks like Arthur's work, in that it's running beefy leaf springs all round with solid axles.  It sits high and is certainly solidly engineered, but otherwise there's no bad...

March, 2024's, Classics by The Beach - Hobart's first-Sunday-of-the-month gathering of classic, sports and performance vehicles - was particularly well attended, with parking at a premium and lots to see.  Cars were literally two abreast in some areas, many surrounded by groups of keen admirers.   This delightful Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider didn't even make it to the car park at Sandy Bay's Long Beach venue, its driver forced to find a spot just outside the main action.  It wasn't the only exhibit to be found beyond the event's usual boundary, though; the immaculate XB GS Falcon ute shown a few pics down the page was parked opposite our Italian beauty, slightly further away again.    Many attendees' cars have featured elsewhere in this 'blog, so I've tried, as best as possible, to only include examples new to the event.  However, there's a chance that one or two have graced our pages before.  Apologies for that.   There were several more Alfas o...