Upper Middle Petrol Head:

The Galant resto is almost done, with only a respray for the bonnet, roof and boot, and  the dash-pad refurb remaining on the to-do list .  Enter, the Dashboard Doctor ( http://dashboarddoctor.com.au ) !   Above and below are the 'before' photos, showing a couple of major cracks and a few minor ones, too.  Stay tuned for the 'after' shots which will hopefully show the facia-fixing motoring medico's work at its best.  There will also be an unbiased - meaning unsolicited and unpaid - report on the quality and cost of the job. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) All iPhone images.

Who'd have thought it?  Not one but two examples of the  Prince of Utes, the  Suzuki Mighty Boy    (please also see: https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au/search?q=mighty+boy ).  Thanks to the T as r anian   Connection for this pic. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au) Smart phone image.

This now quite rare late 60s to 1980 Land Cruiser was spotted in Hobart's CBD on a sunny winter's morning.  Given the large front mudguard-mounted indicators and the big rear combined indicator / tail lights, it's towards the later end of the model range - probably a late 70s version.   Reference to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser )  suggests that it's an FJ55 , which is described there as the '... first "real" station wagon in the Land Cruiser series, thus marking the beginning of [that] branch ..." of Toyota's off-road line-up.  That's not to say, however, that it was their first ever wagon ; it just means that the FJ55  was Toyota's original wagon-specific model (ie: one that wasn't simply a four door variant of a commercial model).   All up, the one shown here was in pretty good nick, with only relatively minor rust (almost certainly the demise of most of these early examples), glossy pain...