Car action has always been a defining ingredient of Hong Kong cinema’s hell-for-leather stunt work. Here, we look at some stunt car classics from over the decades.1. Aces Go Places (1982)Aces Go Places may have been a wacky comedy – but it was a wacky comedy with cars, motorcycles… and hang-gliders.Legendary daredevil, stuntman and car stunt choreographer Blackie Ko Shou-liang doubled for Sam Hui Koon-kit in the motorcycle scenes and became instantly famous when he drove straight through a glass store facade in Tsim Sha Tsui East and landed on the road below.Ko, a motorcycle ace who first became a stuntman in Taiwan, was invited to work on the film by director Eric Tsang Chi-wai and went on to have a prolific entertainment career in Hong Kong.The last part of Aces Go Places features many notable car stunts, beginning when Hui and Karl Maka are trapped in their silver custom car – a kind of cheapskate Batmobile – by a fleet of enemy vehicles.A hand grenade soon disperses them and leads to one of the funniest car stunt sequences ever, when the duo take on the assailants with remote-control models that pursue their targets and explode underneath them. No special effects were used here – the cars really do blow up!One great shot, captured in slow motion with no cuts, features Hui – or rather his stunt double – leaping fully over the roof of an oncoming vehicle and landing on his feet behind it.There is also an amazing waterside stunt where a car flies through the air and lands on the bonnet of a stationary vehicle – you can see the stunt driver hanging on for dear life – followed quickly by a shot of a car launching over the seafront and crashing into a yacht.