Upper Middle Petrol Head:

What do we prefer: Dr Emmett Brown's DeLorean time machine, above, or the Telsa meets SpaceX version shown below?   I think they're both pretty damned cool but I am tending towards the DeLorean ...  Why?   I reckon Doc says it best: Which brings me to this magnificent DeLorean, that, despite having no flux capacitor, seems to have travelled all the way from 1981 to a 2019 car show in Manchester, England, without having dated at all! That's what I call time travel! U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogpot.co.au.) Images via the internet or David Mathewson

Generally, I try to avoid being too partisan when I feature a whole lot of cars, all of which are great in their own ways and are no doubt quite special to whoever owns them.  This is: (a) so as not to offend anyone; and (b) because I suspect that, ultimately, nobody gives a rodent's bot for my opinion, anyway! So, having made my transparent - as in you can see right through it - claim to neutrality, I'll now go on to shamelessly tell you why this outstanding early 1970s' Valiant Pacer was car of the day at August, 2019's, instalment of Classics by the Beach.  Not that there's ever a car of the day, of course!   Other than a set of period-appropriate Aunger  Dragway  mags, the car was ostensibly standard.  Everything else - and I do mean everything - was bang-on original, from the four red horizontal grille bars, through to the mustard yellow duco, perfect panels, decals and badging, and its pristine interior.  The other thing is - and