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The Cascade Austin Healey Club is proud to host Rendezvous 2019.  We welcome you to Campbell’s Resort, on Lake Chelan where together we can celebrate Austin Healeys from up and down the west coast. Planned activities include a car show, tech sessions, a visit to the Miller Automotive Museum with miles and miles of winding roads for your touring enjoyment.  End your day by relaxing at one of the 25 boutique wineries, strolling through downtown Chelan shops or just watch the sunset over Lake Chelan with friends. Join us and together we’ll make lifelong memories.

ORA’s British Car Day will be held once again on the third Saturday in July, this year the 20th.  The show will be The History of Flight and starts at 2 PM. British Cars are welcome to begin arriving at 10 AM and will be displayed on The Green amid the hangars.  For those who have never been to the Aerodrome, there are a number of museum buildings to wander, a snack bar with reasonably priced hot dogs, hamburgers, etc., and an opportunity to purchase rides in a 1929 New standard biplane. There is a nicely stocked gift shop and weather permitting, any number of interesting antique aircraft, autos, and motorcycles. For admission prices, see the group rates on the website. We hope to see an interesting assortment of British cars of all eras.

All British car and motorcycle show. It also includes a timed single car short course. Food and other entertainment available. 150 to 200 vehicles on display. This is the 27th year. Registration is 8:00 Am until 9. Show starts at 9:00 until 2:00. Short and sweet but the best car show in Utah!

The 40th Annual edition of one of the longest running British Car Shows in the USA promises to be a great event, we are expecting over 200 cars with MGs of all models and 8 classes of other British Marques. Popular vote balloting by the car owners is from 10:00 until 1:00 and awards are given out about 3:00 p.m. Winners, chosen by car owner peers, receive awards at their cars as the crowd walks around the show field at the end. This is one of the Murphy Cup winners for the Best MGB.  If you place, check our website for the picture! Directions: From I-95 North of Baltimore take exit 77B, follow Rte. 24 West 13 miles, briefly merging with and then leaving US 1, then later crossing MD 23.  After 13 miles, turn right across the one lane bridge […]

British Car Day® is a volunteer-run event hosted annually by the Toronto Triumph Club, a not-for profit organization.  Since its inaugural event in 1984, British Car Day® has grown in leaps and bounds, and this past year drew 1,000 British cars, over 50 vendors and 8,000 spectators. British Car Day® is held on the third Sunday of September and is open to vintage, classic and current British manufactured vehicles, including motorcycles. The event is the largest, one-day, all-British car event in North America, with visitors from Ontario, the northeast United States, the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, and Manitoba, representing membership in 100 British car clubs. The Toronto Triumph Club supports the Oakville Lions Club and Friends of Bronte Park. All park gate receipts go to Bronte Creek Provincial Park.

The annual convention of the North American MGB Register which represents the MGB, MGB/GT, MGC, MGC GT, Factory V8, 1962-1979 MG Midgets, MG 1100/1300, and post-1980 MG (Modern MGs) Sunday – June 23 Arrivals 1:00-5:00 – Registration Open 7:00 – Welcome and First Timer’s Reception MONDAY – June 24 All Day – Tech Sessions, Driving Tours (on your own), Bus Tours, Silent Auction, 7:00 – 8:00am – YOGA 8:00 – 5:00 – Registration Open 5:30 – BBQ Meet-n-Greet 6:00 – Northern Michigan BBQ TUESDAY – June 25 All Day – Tech Sessions, Driving Tours (on your own), Bus Tours, Silent Auction (ends at 3:00 pm), 7:00 – 8:00am – YOGA (Tuesday will be overflow from Monday) 8:00 – 5:00 – Registration Open 11:30 – 1:30 – Afternoon Tea WEDNESDAY – June 26 9:00 – 2:00 – MG2019  Car Show – […]

Join the British Motor Club of the Cape Fear as they celebrate our 21st anniversary by bringing the best classic British car show in southeastern North Carolina to the battleship USS North Carolina! Raffles Food Truck Free Guest Parking Free Admission for the Public Discount Battleship Tours Available Awards for best club attendance & distance traveled Dash Plaques for First 100 Cars Registered Live Music by The Rusty Bumpers Band

Classic and modern British car and motorcycle show. Door prizes, music, food, wine tasting and beverages available. Register by 5/19 and receive a show tee shirt and dash plaque $20. After 5/19 $25.

18th Annual Brits in the Ozarks will host driving tours through the Arkansas Ozarks on September 5th and 6th, 2019, departing from the host hotel, a cookout and party at the host hotel for participants the evening of the 6th, a people’s choice car show on the 7th, and an awards dinner the evening of the 7th featuring special guest racer, TV personality and author David Hobbs. 18th Annual Brits in the Ozarks – Flyer

Lotus and Williams Advanced Engineering announce a strategic technical partnership in which the companies will share research and development into advanced propulsion technologies. Lotus Engineering has extensive and proven expertise in the integration and application of new technologies – for Lotus Cars and many global engineering clients, and is an acknowledged leader in lightweight structures and advanced materials.

Pupils from a local school were the special VIP guests of retailer McLaren Birmingham in Solihull where they got to find out for themselves how pursuing a science or maths based career helps to create some of the world’s most iconic sportscars and supercars. Year 7 students from Alderbrook School met engineers and designers from McLaren Automotive to find out about what inspired their own journey to the luxury car company and how they use their skills to help push the boundaries of technology in the automotive sector.

MINI USA has announced that the MINI John Cooper Works Team (MINI JCW Team) will enter the 2019 SRO TC America race series (TC America). MINI USA will continue its partnership with Indianapolis-based LAP Motorsports and will sponsor a vehicle in the Touring Car A (TCA) Class of the 2019 TC America, which kicks off at Circuit of the Americas (COTA) on March 1, 2019, just outside of Austin, Texas. Most recently, the MINI JCW Team took home the 2018 Manufacturer’s Championship in the Street Tuner class of the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Series, beating the likes of BMW, Porsche, and Mazda.

As Bentley enters its Centenary year, the oldest remaining and first racing model – EXP 2 – will be displayed at Retromobile, Paris. The first of many unique events in 2019 that will see Bentley celebrate this landmark year, Retromobile kick-starts the world car show season between 6-10 February at Salon des Expositions, Porte de Versailles. Showcasing Bentley’s motoring evolution over the past 100 years, the British brand’s stand in Paris offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore the heritage and the innovation of the British luxury car manufacturer. Joining its illustrious forebear in Paris will be the new Continental GT Convertible – the pinnacle open-top Grand Tourer.

We all start somewhere in the hobby. There is some event or person or car that flips the switch inside our head and leads us to follow the path of the car enthusiast. Some folks get addicted to horses or music or fishing, but if you are reading this, you are probably are addicted to cars. Our Video of the Week this go-round features the car that flipped the switch for a huge celebrity and even bigger car lover, Jay Leno. In this video about his 1954 Jaguar XK120, Leno recounts the tale of seeing his first real sports car, his first Jaguar XK. He tells how the owner of that car let the then only 9-year-old Leno sit in the car, and he tells of the effect that has had upon his life.

Mini owners are being offered a fantastic opportunity to be part of the idolized little car’s unmissable 60th birthday party at this summer’s Silverstone Classic (26-28 July). Plans to salute the diminutive icon’s diamond jubilee with the biggest-ever grid of racing Minis has already been announced – but now comes confirmation of an exclusive anniversary track parade and display, too.

Jaguar has announced the addition of a new Checkered Flag Limited Edition model to the 2020 F-TYPE model line-up. This limited edition model celebrates the brand’s rich sports car heritage dating back to the reveal of the XK 120 in 1948. Based on the Jaguar F-TYPE R-Dynamic Coupe and Convertible, and available with a powerful four- or six-cylinder engine, the Checkered Flag LE features a range of subtle visual enhancements to the exterior and to the driver-focused “1+1” cabin. Highlights include a Black Contrast roof on the Coupe and a luxurious Windsor Leather interior featuring Performance seats with embossed headrests, a Dark Brushed Aluminum center console trim finisher and – in recognition of the Jaguar brand’s motorsport successes – a steering wheel with a discrete Checkered Flag logo and red leather band to mark the 12 o’clock position.

Aston Martin Works, the world-renowned heritage arm of British luxury sports car maker Aston Martin Lagonda, is promising visitors to the upcoming Retromobile Show in Paris next month an unprecedented view of one of the brand’s rarest and most sought-after classic cars – Aston Martin DB4 Convertible, chassis no. 1173. This one-off model, built in 1963 at the historic home of Aston Martin in Newport Pagnell – now center of operations for the Aston Martin Works heritage sales, service, and restoration business – is unique as, of the circa 70 DB4 Convertibles made by the brand between 1961 and 1963, chassis no 1173 is the only car known to have been built by David Brown’s factory team with the more potent DB4 GT engine as an original fitment.

More than 130 dealer representatives attended MG Motor UK’s annual Dealer Conference and Dealer of the Year Awards in Birmingham last week, marking the start of an exciting and busy year ahead for the iconic British brand. Dealers were treated to the official unveiling of the New MG ZS EV, the iconic British brand’s first battery electric car which is set to launch in September 2019. They also heard about “Momentum & Growth”, MG’s mid-term sales plan which will drive the business to treble its sales volumes over the coming years. Significantly, MG also used the Dealer Conference to announce the launch of its aftersales customer retention programme, a key initiative to generate increased service profitability through the rapidly growing MG parc.