41st British Car Day - Sunday September 20th 2026
For a review of the 2025 British Car Day® please scroll down to the bottom of the page. You will find lots of photos in the Gallery from some of our epic photographers. A few video clips can be viewed by clicking onto the pictures on each side of this banner. For a list of Participants’ Choice winners scroll down this page and you’ll see them on the right hand side.
Our Facebook address is https://www.facebook.com/BritishCarDay/
Eligible Cars
Participation at BCD is open to any British manufactured vehicle regardless of membership in a British car club. Owners are encouraged to bring along their British cars, whether they be current model cars, daily drivers, partially restored cars, projects-in-progress or concours level models. The only stipulation is that your car is British or that is was manufactured and/or designed in the UK.
Event Flyer
2025 Poster
A limited number of full sized 18″ x 24″ 2025 posters will be available for $5 at the Toronto Triumph Club tent at British Car Day® on 21st September 2025.
Fast Lane Registration
Fast Lane registration is now CLOSED. See you on Sept 2oth, 2026!
Registration
2025 Car Show Entry Form
You can register and pay on the day of the event. Complete the above registration form and bring it with you to British Car Day. The cost at the gate will be $25 for a car and $15 for a motorcycle.
Field Map
Click here to see an overview of where each make of car is located together with a listing of the 56 classes.
Vendor Registration
VENDOR REGISTRATION FOR 2025 IS CLOSED
Flea Market space is available on a “first-come, first-served, on-the-day” basis and costs $35 at the gate.
Vendor Listing
To view a listing of this year’s current Vendors go to: Vendor Listing
Volunteering
Stand by for information on volunteering at British Car Day in 2026!
Spectators
Here’s a link to the Bronte Creek Provincial Park web site. Vendors and Sponsors arrive at 7 a.m., Show Cars at 8 a.m., and Spectators at 9 a.m. The Awards Ceremonies are at 2 p.m. and cars start leaving at around 3 p.m. for the long trek home. Spectators should enter the park via the main park entrance on Burloak Drive, please follow the signs. The entry fee to the park for spectators is $18 per car (or you can use a Parks Ontario season pass). Seniors are $14.50 and Disabled $9.00. There is no limit on the number of people in the car. To save time you can purchase an Advance Permit Please pay using cash if possible, as use of credit/debit cards really slows down entry to the park and causes long line-ups. Arriving early will help alleviate any delays. There is no entry charge for pedestrians and bicycles. Dogs on a leash are welcome.
NOTE: The Toronto Triumph Club, organizers of British Car Day, have no financial connection with Parks Ontario and Bronte Creek Provincial Park. All fees collected by them at the main park entrance remain theirs and they do not offer refunds.
If you are driving a car for display at British Car Day, please follow the signs carefully and use the north maintenance entrance at the corner of Burloak Drive, where it turns into Upper Middle Road. Money collected at the show car entrance goes towards putting on the show and supporting the Toronto Triumph Club, a not-for-profit organisation.
Location Map
Click below for a
Bronte Creek Provincial Park Field Map
Want to Stay in the Oakville Area?
BCD Regalia
40th British Car Day Posters, Programs, T-shirts and Hats will be available at the Toronto Triumph Club tents on the show field – look for the signs!
Email Addresses
BCD Event Information
The latest information for the 40th running of British Car Day is on this page. Links to our sponsors are on the right-hand column. Further enquiries should be directed to the TTC President Derek McAllister
Vendor & Exhibitor Information
For 2025 Vendor and Exhibitor information, please contact Warren Beech
BCD Programme Advertising and Editorial Submissions
are now closed.
Oakville Visitor Guide
For those of you visiting Oakville for the first time – or even after many times click on this link visit Oakville Visitor Guide
Some Background
British Car Day® is hosted annually by the Toronto Triumph Club, on the third Sunday of September. Since its inaugural event in 1984 it has grown in leaps and bounds and now draws more than 1,000 British cars and over 9,000 spectators, with room to grow even bigger. British Car Day® 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 car owners and visitors travelling from Ontario, the northeast United States, the Maritime provinces, Quebec and Manitoba. Over the years, we have even had visitors from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Texas, the UK, and New Zealand.
The venue for British Car Day® is Bronte Creek Provincial Park in Oakville, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of downtown Toronto, conveniently located at the Burloak Drive exit off the Queen Elizabeth Way. The south entrance is for non-British cars & spectators, while the north entrance is reserved for British car exhibitors and vendors. Dogs on leash are welcome in the park!
Every year one of the most popular destinations at British Car Day® is the Vendor Village area. Over 40 British-related vendors offer their new and used goods for sale, including car parts, complete cars, t-shirts, hats, tools, books, supplies and so on. Many vendors offer end-of-season specials, so there are lots of bargains to be had and great food is available from the many food vendors on site. If you are interested in becoming a vendor please contact us.
BCD comprises 56 classes of cars and motorcycles running the whole range of British automobile marques from Austin to Westfield with model names from Anglia to Zephyr and everything in between. The organizers encourage everyone to bring along their British cars whether they be current model cars, daily drivers, partially restored cars or projects-in-progress, to line up with the many classic and concours-class cars in the appropriate marque and model class. British Car Day® is the opportunity everyone anticipates to chat, to scrutinize, and to plan for next year. It’s a car show but it is also a big, end of season, social event.
What Happened in 2025
British Car Day® was held as usual at Bronte Creek Provincial Park on Sunday, September 21st. BCD has long been accepted as North America’s largest one-day British car show and it is a tribute to the BCD Planning Committee, that a club like ours can continue to present such a great showcase of classic and modern British cars and motorcycles year after year. Unlike many similar car shows, we operate without auto manufacturer or dealership support. This year the event celebrated eight anniversary cars which were located on Sponsor Street:
- MG TC (80 years)
- Triumph TR3, MGA Mark1, and Sunbeam Rapier (70 years)
- Triumph TR4, MGB GT, and AC Cobra (60 years)
- Triumph TR7 (50 years).
We were delighted to welcome new Platinum sponsor Castrol GTX Classic who provided high-zinc oil for some of our winners. Our sponsors at the Gold level included visit Oakville, Silverwax, Morris Insurance, Mackay Group Wealth Management, and Moss Motors. We’re also thrilled to welcome three additional new sponsors this year: Budds’ Imported Cars at the Silver level, and VENVI Churchill Place along with VARAC at the Bronze level.
The day of the show was beautiful with warm temperatures and no clouds, with midday temperatures were in the upper 20s. There were close to 900 cars and motorcycles on the field which has a maximum capacity for 1,150 cars. This is a roughly 3% decrease from last year’s participation.
Participants started arriving at the park at 8:00 a.m., and by 10 o’clock the field was pretty full, although stragglers were still arriving up to noon time, while at the same time some cars were already starting to depart. The final figures for spectators and participants were estimated at just over 9,000.
An unscientific observation as one wandered around the show field suggested that modern Jaguars are in a growth position when compared to the classic Jaguars. It is good to see the number of XK8/XKs on the increase as they become the new Jaguar classic of choice. Triumph and MG followed the predictable relative numbers while it was interesting to note a sharp uptick in Land Rovers, both classic as well as modern. Going forward it is likely that Jaguar, MINI, Land Rover and Lotus will be the growth sectors.
There were 171 Triumphs present on the field (184 in 2024) including 3 GT6s; 26 Spitfires; 14 Stags; 13 TR2-TR3Bs; 19 TR4-TR250s; 77 TR6s; 9 TR7s; and 6 TR8s together with 4 Triumph Others. MGs beat out Triumphs this year by one car! They had 172 (180 in 2024) including 12 Midgets; 4 Saloons; 18 T Series; 18 MGAs; 22 MGB-GTs; 89 MGBs; 5 MGCs and 4 MGFs. Rounding out the top 5 marques were Jaguar 138 (130 in 2023), Mini 95 (102 in 2024); Lotus 48 (49 in 2024). We were short on motorcycles but did one better than last year with 7 on the field.
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Best of Show Awards
A panel of four judges representing the British Saloon Car Club of Canada, MG Car Club of Toronto, Ontario Jaguar Owners Association, Toronto Triumph Club and the Triumph Stag Club of the Americas, selected two Best of Show cars – one award was for a car up to and including 1982 and the other for 1983 to present. The Best of Show winner in the classic category was a glorious 1950 Jaguar Mk V owned by Julien Brosseau. For the modern category, and totally at the other end of the spectrum, the award went to a 2012 Mini Cooper decked out in the classic Gulf Oil paint job owned by Eric Mogilever.
Congratulations to Julien and Eric on their respective wins and many thanks to John Burrows (MGCCT), Tony Fox (BSCCoC, TTC), Ron Walker (OJOA) and Terence McKillen (TSCoA) for selecting the winning cars from the many fantastic vehicles on the field.
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Dave Sims Memorial Fan Favourite Award
This is a brand-new award at British Car Day. To help celebrate our 40th anniversary we wanted to give everyone who comes to the show a chance to vote for their favourite car.
The award is named after BCD Chairman and past TTC president Dave Sims, who passed away suddenly in May of this year. Dave was the driving force behind BCD for the past 12 years. His legacy will live on at future BCDs through the presentation of this award.
Picture to come
Charlie Conquergood Memorial Award
This award is presented to a Club member who has exhibited long-term dedication to the Toronto Triumph Club. This year Ron and Linda Etty received the award. They have been deeply involved in the club and with BCD for many years. He managed our BCD volunteers for several years; she has also been a volunteer for many years and stepped up to play a vital role this year.
Due to his untimely passing in May of this year, we are presenting a second award to honour Dave Sims and his spouse, Maggie, for their dedication to the Club and in particular to British Car Day. Together they organised and ran the vent for the last 12 years, an incredible feat! Dave and Maggie were lifelong partners who shared the interest and drive to make the TTC and BCD successful.
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Long Distance Award
The winner of the long-distance award this year for pre-registered cars driven to the show came from Dartmouth, NS. Rod Patriquin drove his 1959 Singer Gazelle roughly 1,800 km (1,100 miles) each way.
Class Awards
A full list of 2025 Participants’ Choice winners can be found on the right hand side of this page.
In Closing
Of course, BCD doesn’t just happen; it takes the best part of a year in pre-planning, countless volunteer hours by the members of the BCD Planning Committee who met regularly from January through to September as well as members of our Club Executive. More than 100 volunteers were supervised by Volunteer Director Rob Ragsdale, who did an exceptional job ensuring that volunteers were assigned to all the necessary tasks over the two days preparing for, running the event, and cleaning up afterwards. We also acknowledge the volunteer help from other car clubs, along with students and others finding us through the website or by word of mouth. Thanks to all who supported BCD this year, including the sponsors, advertisers, participants, volunteers, committee members, and Bronte Park staff.
See you on Sunday, September 20, 2026, to celebrate the 41st running of BCD.
The Charlie Conquergood Memorial Award
Charlie Conquergood was a friend to all and a staunch supporter of the Toronto Triumph Club and British Car Day. Charlie passed away on March 9, 2009 from cancer. He was always there to help and happy to do so. He never complained and most of all was well known and loved by many people throughout our hobby. Over the years he touched the hearts – and cars – of many.
Charlie took on many roles within the TTC including a term as President. He was instrumental in developing and computerising the master plan for the lay out of the various marques and models and vendor stalls at British Car Day and for many years would personally be involved in the laying out of the field on the Saturday morning before BCD.
Each year, his friends at the Toronto Triumph Club award a special commemorative plaque in recognition of Charlie’s passing and his unreserved devotion to his wife Sandy, his family and faithful Triumph Spitfire ‘Gumby’.
The recipient of the award is decided by the Executive Committee of the TTC and their decision is based on members who have demonstrated a similar devotion and dedication to the Club and as a reflection of the life values and spirit of friendship, which Charlie Conquergood always shared with us.
Presented By
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Update re. BCD Chair Dave Sims
We are saddened by the sudden passing of Dave Sims, long-time Chairman of British Car Day® and past president of the Toronto Triumph Club. Dave was a force for the British Car Community and a good friend to many. Our condolences go out to Maggie, and to Dave’s family in the UK. The British Car Day® organising committee will carry on in Dave’s honour.
Results by Year
British Car Day Jewellery
Photos graciously provided by the photographer, Ian Grant.
