{"id":10586,"date":"2017-05-08T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=10586"},"modified":"2017-05-09T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:53:40","slug":"austin-healey-3000-close-winner-over-jaguar-xk150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=10586","title":{"rendered":"2017 Best Brit Sports Car: Austin-Healey 3000, a close winner over Jaguar XK150"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fast and powerful, the Austin-Healey 3000 joined familiar aspects of the classic English roadster with the oomph of a six-cylinder, three-liter engine. Photo: Mark Faviell.<\/p><\/div>The votes have been tallied on this year\u2019s Vancouver All British Classic Car Show\u2019s campaign to determine the most popular British sports car and the winner by only nine (9) votes is the beautiful Austin-Healey 3000.<\/p>\n

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Initially built for export only, the Jaguar XK150 was produced as a styling stopgap between the XK140 and the revolutionary E-Type that followed. It bore a family resemblance to the XK120 and XK140, but was radically upgraded. Photo: Mark Faviell.<\/p><\/div>Second was Jaguar\u2019s XK150 model and third, with 30 votes short of the Austin-Healey, was the very nimble Sunbeam Tiger.<\/p>\n

A total of 835 votes were cast over the month-long, online campaign in which entrants voted for their Top 5 sports cars from a pre-selected listed of 12 British sports cars:<\/p>\n

\u2022\tJaguar XK150
\n\u2022\tAustin-Healey 3000
\n\u2022\tMorgan Plus 8
\n\u2022\tSunbeam Tiger
\n\u2022\tBugeye Sprite
\n\u2022\tTVR Taimar
\n\u2022\tLotus Elan
\n\u2022\tTriumph TR6
\n\u2022\tTriumph TR3
\n\u2022\tMGA
\n\u2022\tMGB
\n\u2022\tAC Ace<\/p>\n

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Sunbeam Tiger: British design, coupled with North American power and perfect balance. Photo: Mark Faviell.<\/p><\/div>\n

The official draw from all entries was made on April 30 for a sponsors\u2019 prize package valued at $500.<\/p>\n

The winner of the draw is Triumph owner Trish McAuley<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The winner receives an Autoglym Detailing kit, 4 ABFM VIP Passes for 8 people to attend the Saturday May 20 British Classic Car Show at VanDusen Garden and a $125 Gift Certificate for use at Wilkinson\u2019s Automobilia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all who voted in this year\u2019s ABFM Best Brit Sports Car campaign and also to our sponsors: Hagerty Collector Car Insurance<\/a>;
\nAutoglym Detailing Products<\/a>;
\nClassic Car Adventures<\/a>;
\nVancouver ABFM<\/a>; and
\nWilkinson’s Automobilia<\/a>.
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The votes have been tallied on this year\u2019s Vancouver All British Classic Car Show\u2019s campaign to determine the most popular British sports car and the winner by only nine (9) votes is the beautiful Austin-Healey 3000. Second was Jaguar\u2019s XK150 model and third, with 30 votes short of the Austin-Healey, was the very nimble SunbeamRead Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-british-field-meet","category-best-brit-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10586"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10609,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10586\/revisions\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}