Little British Car

LBC is a term used in the North American collector car world to designate a "Little British Car". Most often, though not limited to, British Sports Cars of the 1950s through the 1970s, it includes such cars as the Austin Healey Sprite, (together with its sister car the MG Midget), the MG "T" series, (MG TA to TF), MGA, and MGB, the Triumph "TR" series including the TR 250, 250a and TR3 through to the TR8. The Austin/Morris Mini is also included along with the Sunbeam Alpine and its sister the Sunbeam Tiger. Interesting enough, the Nash Metropolitan is considered an LBC

All cars manufactured by Lotus including variants by many manufacturers of the "7", including Caterham Cars and Westlake. Everything from TVR, and Morgan must also be included, and for something new, the MINI and the Ariel Atom should not left off this admittedly incomplete list. What they seem to have in common is a weight of no more than about 2000 pounds.

Cars not included in the definition include the "Big" Austin-Healey series of [100-4] , [100-6] and [3000] , the Jaguar XKE and anything made by Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, or Bentley.

Small British cars also that fall into the LBC category include, but are not limited to:

* Ashley GT
* Austin Healey Sprite/MG Midget (Spridget)
* Austin Seven, A30, A35 and A40
* Berkeley
* Fairthorpe Electron Minor, Atom and GT
* Hillman Minx
* MG (K Magnette, J-type, PA, PB, PA Airline Coupé, TA, TB, TC, TD, TF, TF 1500, MGA, MGB, MGCMGC...etc)
* Mini (including the Mini Cooper and Mini Cooper S, also the Riley Elf and Wolseley Hornet)
* Mini Moke
* Mini Marcos
* Morgan
* Morris 1100
* Morris Minor
* Reliant
* Riley Imp
* Riley 1300 (Kestrel)
* Sunbeam Alpine and Sunbeam Tiger.
* Triumph Herald and Spitfire
* Wolseley 15/50, 1500 and 1100