All British Classic Car Show

**RNST** · 05-20-2012, 12:22 AM

I spent a couple of hours checking out all the Classic British Cars at a local show in Vancouver today.

You name it, it was there - Mini's, Jags, MGB's, TR's, Bentley's, Roll Royces etc etc.

So many cars and I didn't take a real camera with me. These are from my phone.

Aston Martin Vantage. Probably one of the nicest looking cars around IMHO.

Some E Type Jags

Rolls and Bentley's

Some Mini Cooper's

I learned that Mini used to make a Mini Pick up Truck once upon a time. The banner said over 60,000 were made mainly as utility trucks or delivery trucks.

Austin Healey's

Now this was pretty cool. A Landrover Defender totally decked out for an around the world trip. A Swiss and German couple have completed S America and Australia. They are now on a cross North American tour. I swear not one square inch was wasted and their storage system was extremely functional.

A row of TR 6's. Used to be a really popular car here in Vancouver.

A DeLorean was here too! I took this shot hoping to see the Flux Capacitor

**englishmark** · 05-20-2012, 03:36 AM

Very cool, there's a few cars there i wouldn't mind owning.

Minis used to be all over the place here, you never see them now. Same with the TR6, MG's, Triumph Spitfires. I used to work in a garage at the weekends when I was a teenager and it was this kind of classic stuff that used to come in. For a young bloke into cars it was the dream weekend job. I was fifteen years old and would be rebuilding the engine on an Aston DB4, or a Lotus europa, cool stuff.

You used to see quite a few of the Mini pickups they also did a van version as well and an estate. In the eighties the pickup was a popular car for teenagers, quite a few of them had big wheel arches, wide tyres and big shitty exhausts, most of them ended on the wrong side of a hedge.

My son, wants a mini, I hope he gets one so I can drive it, I haven't driven a Mini for years and used to have a blast in them.

**RNST** · 05-20-2012, 01:39 PM

Mark, one of the reasons I went is I recently bought a Mini Cooper S with the John Cooper Works package. 208 HP in a vehicle this small is really quite the rush

Its a 2008 with only 10,000 km on it. The previous owner went to Australia to work for two years and parked it in a garage the whole time.

It's huge change for me since I have been driving an SUV for a long time. Driving one of these little rocketships is so much fun. I did a run to Whistler last weekend and it was surprising the cars that had difficulty keeping up with me

**grace** · 05-20-2012, 02:38 PM

I had a mini pickup in British Racing Green. I sold it when I got pregnant...the braking was often more wishful thinking than reality!

I loved that car.

My first car was a Morris 1100...1967, I think...

Ps. The mini had a hole in the floor. Even 40 mph seemed rather risky when you could see the road beneath your feet!

**bobivxx** · 05-20-2012, 03:27 PM

Looks like it was a nice show. I've never seen a mini "truck" till now.

You may want to do some research on the drain tube for the sunroof on your new mini. My ex wife had a checkmate edition a few years back. Long story short RAIN totaled her car!!!

A golf cart with 20lbs. of boost and a six speed is a lot of fun though!