Lakes,
My first car was an Austin A30. I'd never seen the connection before you mentioned it.
My A30 was neat. Black 4 door, bucket seats in the front, 4 on the floor. I would love to own it now.
When at high school, I managed to get 13 boys in the A30 on the way back from a footy game at the local town oval. Scraped a bit coming in the school gate. Got a friendly word from the sports master not to do it again. How times have changed.
We reminisced at a recent reunion about this event. One of the wives suggested there was no way we would fit that many of us in that car now.
Bob