Upper Middle Petrol Head:

  The only reason that that I, personally, wouldn't spend all my time poncing about wineries if this were my 300 SL is that I prefer craft beer.   It is possible that the car's actual owner doesn't spend  all  his or her time so engaged, of course ...  but other than that, I reckon it's just the car for such activities, be the  Getränk des Tages grape- or hop-based! And just for the record, these photos were taken at a winery on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) Photos courtesy of The Director.

  Hobart-based correspondent GlamRock recently brought us a Wolseley 24/80 (please see  https://uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com/2022/12/from-glamrock-wolseley-sedan.html ) .  Then the CCC reminded me that he, too, had submitted this Wolseley, also pointing out that I'd failed to publish it.      It's also a 24/80, powered by the six cylinder Blue Streak engine developed in, and for, Australia, based on the BMC B-Series lump. If you want to learn more about the 24/80 - that's 24(00) cc / 80 BHP, by the way - I recommend this HubNut video:  https://youtu.be/z_q6QdvVXtw .    Adding to the interest - for me, anyway - is that HubNut filmed his feature car in Burnie, Tasmania, during a series he created called Aussie Oddballs , in which he showcases British Leyland products developed in, and modified for, Australian conditions. U M P H (uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.) Photos by the CCC.  

  Happy new year, petrol-heads!  We begin 2023's Classics by the Beach with this immaculate V6 Ford Capri GT, follow it up with an unusual - also quite rare - SAAB, an excellent VW Beetle, a pristine Austin Healey, and an interesting selection of Minis, before capping it all off with an elegant Riley coupe.  Please enjoy! I've loved Capri GTs ever since Ms Paterson first drove her then quite new blue one into the Howrah Primary School teachers' car park in the early 1970s.  Other than the main colour, hers was had the exact same livery as today's example and featured what were then considered to be high-end performance Dunlop Aquajet bias-ply radial tyres, possibly on alloy wheels from the same manufacturer and that looked like this: Ms Paterson was a formidable woman and a member of the Australian Institute of Advanced Motorists.  I thought she was really, really cool!  It's unlikely, being a primary-schooler when this quirky SAAB was built, that...