Upper Middle Petrol Head:

Sometimes I'm a dickhead!  Not a full-blown, in your face dickhead, mind you; just your regular too lazy to be arsed doing something that I really, really know that I should do 'coz it makes sense dickhead.  I suspect that I'm not alone in my occasional dickheadedness. Fuel pump relay on the left, with the safety switch on the right. A simple question posted on the Galant Enthusiasts Australia Facebook page reminded me of this.  A Mr Nancarrow asked about fitting an electric fuel pump and me, being a bit of a safety nerd and having installed said items on both of my cars, suggested that it would be a good idea to also fit a kill-switch.  Another bloke - Mr Roy - had a much better idea, asking: why not use a collision cut-off switch instead?   I knew he was right; I'd thought about it before but had done F-A about it.  Then a Mr Ford posted an eBay link, by way of an example, and the rest is history. Power-in terminal on the top (blue cover); ...

Here are some car photos - most of them of Italian marques - plus a few random people pics, all taken at the 2021 annual Club Motori Italia breakfast at the Waterworks reserve, Dynnyrne, about ten minutes' drive from Hobart's CBD.  It was a good turn-out of maybe two dozen or so club members in ten or twelve cars on an absolute cracker of a day.     Had I thought about it at all, I  really should've taken some food shots, too.  Head chef Graham seemed to have everything under control with  two or three chef de parties hard at work on the grills, pumping out a wide range of dishes, and there was also a good selection of breads and drinks.  It really was a great spread!  Thank you, Squadra   Cucina !! As well as being a good general excuse to socialise (I'm rapidly discovering that being social falls only just short of the celebration Italian cars, and conducting and participating in motorsports as CMI priorities), it was also meant t...

It's been a while since there was an all-Japanese car show, so it was great that local car fan AJ showed a bit of nous and organised one via Facebook.  Held on the Queen's Domain, five minutes' drive from Hobart's CBD, it was well attended and attracted a good-sized collection of cars from the Home of the Rising Sun, including this magnificent - and sadly now all too rare - Series 1 RX7.  On a day when too many RX7s was barely enough, it was fabulous to also see this pristine Series 3.  It's a local car, seen reasonably frequently and always looks perfect!  It'd be hard to imagine a better combination of originality and mods, with its front and rear spoilers, BBS wheels and fat exhaust.   Kawaii is Japanese for adorable or cute, apparently . This car is "super-cute," according to the windscreen sticker. As far as I know, these earlier  Sylvia / 200SXs only ever came to Australia as "grey imports," usually via Western Australia for some reason...