Upper Middle Petrol Head:

This is the Alfa Male's side project, a fuel-injected 1.7 litre Alfa 33 (Tipo 905), that he bought to replace his 16 valve Tipo 907 33 that self-immolated several years back.  It's also his "practice car" - a chance to hone his panel beating, spray painting and reassembly skills before he finishes the other project he's got on the go - a 1.5 litre twin carb Tipo 905 33 that's undergoing a ground-up rebuild. The main pics, at the top of the page and the two just below, show the car as it is now.  The one immediately above depicts it as it was when the Alfa Male bought it:  straight, free of structural / major rust but viewed close up, in need of a little TLC. Suffice to say that it's had its TLC and a bit more, too.  A few minor dents and creases have been removed, some light rust treated and its dullish, crazed paint has been replaced by a good few coats of crisp white duco and another of clear to finish it all off.  The bumpers and skirts have been given ...

Classics by the Beach kicked off 2021 in emphatic style with a large turnout at Sandy Bay's Long Beach.  Not only were there numerous cars on display, the quality and range of vehicles at the regular first Sunday of the month  gathering  proved, yet again, that it is the very best event of its type in southern Tasmania. Upper Middle Petrol Head's January coverage of Classics features eight distinctly different but equally engaging cars, and one motorcycle.  We'll begin with the Alfa GTV pictured above and below but there's also a magnificent XW Fairmont  GS , a pair of lovely E30 BMWs, a very interesting Volvo van, what appears to be a genuine Shelby Cobra and a contemporary kit version of the same model, plus a Norton Commando with a brilliant metal-flake paint job.   Matt's 1985 Alfa GTV might just be as a good an example of the model as there is pretty much anywhere!  He tells me that he's owned it since the early 1990s, it has approximately 13...