Get ready for British Car Week, May 30-June 7
Oil your trunnions and top off your dashpots, it’s time for British Car Week. Held this year from May 30 through June 7, British Car Week is intended to raise the general public’s awareness of British cars by encouraging owners to get them out on the road.
Taking part couldn’t be easier – just get into your British car and drive. If you’re looking for ideas for places to go, the British Car Week website has a full calendar of events taking place that week, all across the U.S. Among those events is the fourth annual National British Car Meet, which takes place May 28-30 in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Now in its 19th year, British Car Week is the brainchild of Scott Helms, who felt inspired to take action after reading a column by Peter Egan titled “Seldom Seen Cars” in the March 1997 issue of Road & Track. In the column, Egan notes, with concern, the disappearance from our roads of sports cars that were once relatively commonplace.
The idea of BCW “was to promote the British car hobby using the vast resources of the Internet to contact British car enthusiasts wherever possible (email, clubs, blogs, list groups…), and hope they would join forces to help promote all of the many wonderful facets of the hobby,” Scott writes on the BCW website. “By getting cars onto the roads of communities everywhere possible during the week, it would help increase awareness of these once very popular vehicles, and in turn help keep the hobby and businesses that support our cars flourishing.”
See you out on the road. I’ll be in the April Yellow 1968 Rover 2000 TC – honk and wave if you see me! Don’t have a British car? Don’t fret – you can find a variety of MGs, Triumphs, Austin-Healeys, Jaguars and other fine British cars for sale right here on Hemmings.com.