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7. Model name for Bond’s Triumph-based GT coupés, built from 1963 to 1970 (6) 8. One of the many Italian ‘Etceterini’ small sports cars that flourished from 1945 to the early ’60s (6) 10. Historic US automobile marque, builder of US city taxis until 1982 (7) 11. This Austrian car builder built a classic and successful 650cc rallying version of the Fiat 500 Bambina in the mid ’60s (5) 12. Successful racing car builder, with designs by Australian Ron Tauranac (4) 13. Model name for Austin’s classic small car; more than a quarter of a million were built between 1922 and 1939 (5) 17. This number, often used as a model name pre World War II, represented the RAC horsepower figure of c. 900–950cc small car engines (5) 18. Brazilian GT car builder, mostly with Vw-based design elements (4) 22. New Zealand racing car designer, builder, and driver, best remembered for his successful Formula 5000 designs of the ’70s (5) 23. Model name for Buick’s successful 1959–’90 full-size luxury car, built in six main generations over that period (7) 24. Chevrolet and GM career engineer and manager, best remembered, perhaps, for his involvement with the design of Cadillac and Chev small block V8s in the late ’40s and mid ’50s (2,4) 25. Model name for Simca’s successful 1951–’64 classic family saloon; more than 1.4 million were built in that period, when Simca became the second biggest carmaker in France (6)
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1. Ford Motor Company’s 1939–2010 marque name for entry-level and, sometimes, performance models (7) 2. Italian racing circuit, currently used for motorbike racing and as a Formula 1 testing facility by Ferrari (7) 3. Rod or strip running between wheel hub and wheel rim (5) 4. US car company that built and sold small cars with some success from 1939 to 1952 (7) 5. Classic UK marque, latterly owned by Nuffield then BMC; its radiator badge was a blue diamond (5) 6. Lamborghini’s classic transverse-engine V12 supercar, built from 1966 to 1973 (5) 9. Device in vehicle transmissions, formerly used as an economy aid — as in Rover’s ‘Auntie’ P4 — or to smooth out uneven running in two-stroke engines on the overrun (Saab and DKW) (9) 14. Model name used by Alvis for its 1932–’34 four-cylinder saloon and roadster models (7) 15. Ford Motor Company’s classic pony car, introduced in 1964 and an instant bestseller (7) 16. Dunlop’s technically advanced anti-lock braking system, used on the 4WD Jensen FF in the mid ’60s (7) 19. The mid-phase colour in the traffic light sequence (5) 20. “----- … space … pace” was an advertising slogan used by Jaguar in the ’50s and ’60s (5) 21. The charming mid-’30s cabriolet versions of 13 across (5)