Upper Middle Petrol Head:

I don't know that last time I saw an XR, XT, XW or XY Falcon van, let alone one that looked this good.  The example shown here - an 1969 XT, according to its personalised number plates - featured glossy duco, straight chrome and a good looking set of Aunger Dragway mags.  The meaty looking twin exhausts suggest it was fitted with a V8 donk, too. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) All iPhone images.

These are a few of fellow photographer Matt's images from the Longley stage of 2019's Targa Tasmania, showing cars exiting the right hander opposite the Wadsleys' farm on their way from the Longley International Hotel towards Neika.  I may be guilty of having suggested that I'd seen more enthralling motor racing in my earlier post about this year's Longley stage.  However, that's not to say that everyone was playing it safe, as Matt's photos prove.   Can't quite see what I'm banging on about?  Have a look at the close-ups! See what I mean?  They say that a picture paints a thousand words and, if so, the ones shown here of the off-side rear wheels of the thunderous Torana above, plus the nimble Lotus Exige and high-tech Nissan GTR below, speak volumes for how hard some drivers were pushing their machines! U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) Nikon dSLR images courtesy of Matt O.