These pictures were taken at this year’s Raleigh Antique British Car Show that took place May 20th, 2012 at North Hills Mall. There’s not going to be a lot of captions because I don’t know that much about British cars, but I’ll do what I can. Feel free to help in the comments.
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- This won almost all the SUV of the Year awards last year.
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- Land Rover Evoque: designed with assistance from Victoria Beckham
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- Jaguar V12: I’m glad I don’t have to work on it.
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- Twin intercooled supercharged V8
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- Nice Wilwood brake setup on this TR6
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- Bug/Frog Eye Sprite smiling at the sun.
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- I’m told this one is a later model.
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- Another one of these Jaguars pulled in.
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- 10″ Minilites
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- This is a later model Mini
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- Austin Minis
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- This thing was brought back from the dead with the help of a donor car
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- Another V8 MGB
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- Not sure what this is, but it had a BMW engine swap
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- Roush V8
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- Superformance Cobra Kit
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- The same guy owned the next 3 cars.
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- TVR 2500M
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- Designed in the US, built in the UK
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- The engine bay on the other hand…
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- It’s not often you get to see the interior of these. This one was pretty clean.
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- Pretty clean Delorean
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- TVR 280i
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- I think this was an Austin
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- Old Volvo.
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- I think this is an American car. It was parked next to a Mustang kind of away from everybody else.
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- Lotus Evora S
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- Lotus Elise
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- Jaguar XKR
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- Lotus helped Toyota set up the suspension on the first MR2 in exchange for access to the parts bins.
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- This Lotus Espirit has the same taillights as the zenki AE86 Corolla. The owners don’t usually find that fact amusing.
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- This Jaguar was once the fastest car in the world. It’s the same one that Top Gear raced against a Vincent Black Shadow and a steam engine.
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- The venerable Jaguar E-Type
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- If you take enough pictures, some of them turn out good
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- This Jaguar D-Type replica was probably my favorite car of the show
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- This model Jaguar used to be the British Police Cruiser
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- This is the first Mini Coupe that I’ve seen in person
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- BMW Built modern Mini Coopers
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- The Shelby Cobra formula for success
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- This TR6 has a Ford V8
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- Triumph TR250
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- More MGB’s
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- MGB race car
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- This MG was entered in the Race Car category
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- Triumph Scrambler in Steve McQueen green
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- Triumph Bonnevilles
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- MGB GT’s
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- This is an Austin Healey despite being parked next to the MG sign
