British Car Day
 

Around 1,000 cars. Quite a few people, most of them British. Awful food at high prices:

British Car Day

Anyone else up for it?

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Hubby would enjoy that but don’t know if we can make it. Our neighbour has a 1954 (?) TR2. He was at a British Car show yesterday, Caledon. Maybe he will be at the Sept show.

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I didn't know there was a Caledon show, that's just down the road. I was in Niagara, touring wineries as the impoverished guest of the Aston Martin club.

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Ooh when we move I'll bring my Capri and OH can bring the Land Rover or Rolls Or Zephyr, if any of those are still under our ownership...hopefully the Rolls will be long gone,

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Oooh a Rolls, get you! :D

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Ahhh, I'd love to be there, if only to sit behind the wheel of a Triumph TR4 again! That was the first new car I'd bought, when I was a newly married 27-year old emigrating from Toronto to Nassau, Bahamas. (And the only new car I've ever bought, now that I think of it, these fifty years on!) When we lived in Perth, Australia, for 12 months, four years later, I (we) bought a second-hand one of the same model. I remember the feeling of being King of the Road, driving around with the rag-top down. In Bath, England, five years after that, we had an old Triumph Herald. All very reliable cars, I'm glad to say.

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There's a fair few! Next big one is Georgetown I think :)
https://www.bsccoc.ca/events.php

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Did you happen to go to this one?

https://www.sue-annstaff.com/

A group of us went a bit over a week ago and this one was the best. I"m glad we had a non-drinker as the driver.

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Not that one but one was on a hill top with a view of the lake. Nice spot.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...a3f1ce738b.jpg

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I might try to get there this year, not been for the last few. It's an unusual Sunday these days that doesn't have some sort of sporting or social event for assorted offspring to get to, which more often than not precludes my swanning off for a day in a field with a picnic (since I got fed up with the price/quality conundrum of the food that dbd mentioned). I'll try and update plans on this thread nearer the time, it usually boils down to a "game day decision."

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Some interesting transport there. Were you in the Healey? Some discerning gent arrived in his Morgan, I see...

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Well, yes, ideally one should have a hamper, brace of pheasant, cold collation, that sort of thing.

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I was in the Healey. It was mostly Aston Martin's but, yes, a Morgan, a few Cobras, a McLaren, some Loti, several Triumphs even a Trevor - some bread and butter cars too; Alfa 8C, various German cars.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...692388b60a.jpg

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Of course. My picnic arrives in the (now sadly rather battered and bruised) Fortnum and Mason hamper that once contained one of those corporate Christmas ham-and-preserves gifts. It's wildly impractical as it doesn't keep cold things cold or hot things hot, and it impedes rear vision when it's strapped to the luggage rack, but it looks the part and that's really the only thing that matters, after all :)

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That looks like the view from Megalomaniac Winery which we also went to that same day..a week ago yesterday. It was probably the busiest winery we went to that day. At another winery a Routemaster pulled up (1965 model I think) that can take you to a number of wineries in style, if you consider Bob Grant/Jack Harper to be a style icon :):)

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I couldn't deal with that impeded rear vision. To my mind a major joy is having a rear view mirror, ideally attached to the dashboard, which offers an unobstructed view. I can't be dealing with cars that have bulbous top packaging requiring use of the wing mirrors so, no Beetles, no Bentleys and regrettably few Alvis models seem joyous to me.

That is the Megalomaniac Winery.

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I made OH promise to never buy another one, we've had a few. He promised not to buy one, so he got given One 🤤🙄

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You'll have to introduce me to some of your friends, the only thing I've ever been given was a second-hand bike - and it was a boy's :frown:

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The Landy will probably be worth more than the rolls. Switch it to LHD in your barn and it'll pay for the move!

I made a splendid game day decision to go and test ride the new Royal Enfields in Acton back in June. Really impressive and a nice excuse for a spin across to the west side of the GTA too.

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I saw the Jag XF shooting brake in the UK this summer for the first time, and nearly cried. In ten years when they're affordable we'll only have those ghastly F-Pace things to look at.

Finding myself drooling of Focus and Avensis wagons was a bit of a low point, and possibly a sign of home-sickness? Or just my SUV allergy.

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We have a barely used Royal Enfield for sale at the moment....Landy is already a LHD.

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British Car Day may have fallen off my agenda for this year, at least as a participant if not as a spectator. The back end of the Morgan is in pieces on the garage floor, awaiting delivery of new wheel cylinders for the rear brakes on both sides. I had a bit of an instant-aid-to-concentration moment the other day when I pressed the brake pedal, my foot went to the floor, and no significant change in velocity occurred. Thankfully in slow but steady traffic on the highway; I was able to get home (very carefully) using engine braking and the handbrake. It's likely one side hasn't been working very effectively for some time, judging by state of the drum and shoe... note to self to make sure I drive hard enough and brake sharply enough to notice any asymmetry in future!

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Eek! I intend to go, if there's no danger of raindrops, and have scheduled repairs to my wobbly steering to follow.

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Sunday is the day of the show. Anyone going?

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I intend to go, I have my window card. Red and black Austin-Healey.

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Unfortunately we are stuck downtown today, but hubby would have loved to see the cars. The weather isn’t looking good for this afternoon.

Hope all goes well and the rain stays away.