Cars

Your pictures were appended to your census comments last week, but I figured the effort people went to to send in some photos deserved a bit more recognition than that. So, here are your cars in a post of their own. There’s an undeniable Swedish theme hanging around, which is never a bad thing. It’s not as Swedish as it […]

I’m always amazed at the number of people who include terrible, poorly lit and poorly composed photos in advertisements for cars they’re trying to sell. If you’re selling your car and trying to coax someone into spending thousands of dollars – or maybe tens of thousands of dollars – surely you can make a bit of an effort to present

A big THANKYOU to all who participated in sharing the contents of your garage. It was great to see the variety of vehicles and the extent of people’s collections. I think we might have to do this again in the future, but perhaps in a more organised way. Anyway, thanks a bunch. It was a lot of fun. —— 968

UPDATE! – Everything works better with photos. If you’d like me to include a photo with your comment then send a picture to swade99-at-gmail-dot-com and I’ll weave some magic and include the pic(s) with your comment. Check out some of your fellow reader’s rides in comments below. Outstanding!!! —— When I posted my question a few days ago – What’s

oday was the first Sunday of the month and after a few months away on family visits, it was great for me to get back to Classics By The Beach. And what a day! We had some terrible weather in Hobart last week, but it’s almost as if the weather gods were trying to get the bad stuff out of

We’ve been house-hunting recently. Not for an ideal 4-car garage. Just for a house, but hey….. We thought we’d found a good one, too. If we’d gone ahead and bought it, this would have been my garage/workshop 🙂 That would have been nice. Sadly, for various reasons, it just didn’t turn out to be the place for us. All that

A few weeks ago I wrote about the best lineup of cars I’ve seen at a Shannons classic car auction here in Australia in a long, long time. I’ve never been so motivated to blow my life savings in one place at one time. The cars and the expected selling prices before the auction were as follows: Porsche 924 ‘Turbo’

Written a few months ago for Flussig Magazine. My wife and I planned a 2-week road trip up the east coast of Australia for September/October 2013. We live in Hobart, the capital of the island state of Tasmania, to the south of the Australian mainland. Our plan was to drive from the southernmost mainland capital – Melbourne – and follow

There are a lot of classic car auctions these days, and there’s always something of interest in them. Problem? Most of the auctions that really pique one’s interest are in places far away and selling cars that only gazillionaires can afford. The Shannons Melbourne Winter Auction is an exception. I’d still need to be a gazillionaire to justify buying everything