common british cars

I am a car layman. When people talk about cars, they talk about the big names such as Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Bentley etc..

In my youth, I was happy as long as I had something that could move me on the road. My time in the UK allowed me to eye-witness many common cars that had risen and set with the British Empire.

Don't know how many of the below you can still remember:

Vauxhall and its Bedford line (Bedford was once dominating the HK buses). If my friend Anthony Yung sees this blog, he will not forget he once owned a Vauxhall Viva.

Triumph - Triumph Toledo was many people's love in the 70s.

Leyland - British Leyland was dominating the Britis motor market in the 70s & 80s because it was merged by many brand names(Kowloon Motor Bus bought a lot of Leylands)

Morris - the symbol of British small cars. Morris Minors and Minis, especially Mini is still having lots of fans around the globe.

Austin  - 1100/1300, Mini Metro, Oxford (london black Taxi). I once owned an Austin 1100 in 1980.

MG - famous for its sport cars in James Bond movies

Wolseley 1100/1300 - exactly the same as Austin 1100/1300 but Wolseley has a vertical radiator grille in its front rather than horizontal in Austin.

Hillman - Hillman Hunter and Hillman Avenger were popular on our campus

Riley  - Riley was positioned between MG and Wolseley and most Riley models resembled Austin/Morris. Once ususally can't tell the differences until they see the marque.

                           

One may ask what drives me write this blog? it was a Hong Kong Movie named 少女懷春 (1963) actors: 丁瑩 | 張儀 | 羅蘭 | 李克.  李克 was a handsome guy on the big screen for a short period. You may not recognise his name 李克, however, you may still remember the nicked name 「白頭陳」 陳曜旻 who had news headline affairs with 章小蕙 (鍾鎮濤 前妻） between 1996 and 1999.

you can see a lot of old british cars in that movie. These british old models gave way to the Japanese when it came to the 70s. You propbably cannot see any of them on the road nowsdays.