Upper Middle Petrol Head:

Don't ask me why, but this stylish old EK looked particularly at home parked by the beach.  It could've been that its unmistakably mid-1950s styling lent it an air of US surf movie fun (for the logical amongst you, the lack of roof racks and boards is noted!); it might've just been that the colour scheme was evocative of lazy summers and, in Australia, that usually equals being beachside.  Either way, it was a joy to behold! U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) All iPhone images.

  The red 1983 Series 2 X1/9 on the right has an interesting history and is a little less standard than it may first appear to be.  According to its current owner, it's an ex-Launceston car that was written-off in a front-end bingle only a short time after it was sold new.  It was then bought by a well known Hobart-based Fiat aficionado, who had plans to turn it into a rally car, but ended up rebuilding it for road use. Although the car looks quite stock, the front-end was actually re-engineered with an entirely new space frame.  All the forward panels were repaired and a new bumper was added, following the Series 1-style, but covering the full width of the nose.   A cut-down Commodore radiator was also fitted.   However, everything aft of the front windscreen remains standard, even retaining the original duco.   As a Series 2, it came standard with a 1.5 litre motor and a five speed box, both of which remain, having only amass...