CROSSWORD / NEXT MONTH
Clues across: 7. Lamborghini’s front-engined V12 coupé built from 1968 to 1969 (6) 8. Aka ‘generator’, this electrical device was fitted to many classic cars before the introduction of alternators (6) 10. German aircraft company; its Kabine microcar was one of the better bubble cars of the late 1950s (7) 11. Belgian city, the starting point of the gruelling Marathon de la Route classic rally, first run in 1931 (5) 12. Len ----, later Baron Lambury, was the manager and driving force behind Austin from 1938 and BMC from 1952 (4) 13. Lancia’s 1976–’84 front-wheel-drive executive saloon or coupé (5) 17. Successful Austin small car; 450,000 built between 1947 and 1952 (5) 18. Successful racing car builder, initially in Australia in the 1950s and again in Britain in the 1970s and later (4) 22. A ----- head engine uses a near-flat cylinder head with combustion chambers formed in the tops of the pistons (5) 23. Model name for Buick full-size cars, built in six main generations from 1959 to 1990 (7) 24. Aerodynamically designed Matra coupé, built from 1980 to 1983 and noted for threeabreast seating (6) 25. Many older people’s choice as best Grand Prix driver of all time, he won five Formula 1 world championships in the 1950s (6)
Clues down: 1. Frank ------- was the founder of the Elva car company in 1955 (7) 2. Fifties–sixties engineer-designer at Maserati, successful with Formula 1, sports- and road-car designs, and later with Lamborghini from 1975 to 1985 (7) 3. The ‘B’ of bhp, used to measure power output in the classic era (5) 4. South African racing circuit, which gave its name to a 1976–’83 Maserati four-seater coupé (7) 5. UK car stylist and industrial designer, notably for Ogle Design from 1962 to 1999 (5) 6. Commonly used term to describe flat or horizontally opposed configuration engine designs (5) 9. Italian car company, builder of dozens of classic racing and sports car designs from 1910 onwards, now part of Fiat (4,5) 14. The upmarket version of Standard’s successful 948cc small car, with over 42,000 built from 1957 to ’60 (7) 15. Aston Martin’s name for the performance-tuned versions of its classic 1960s GT cars, and a model in its own right from 1972 to ’73 (7) 16. Lancia’s rally-winning GT coupé, world champion rally car from 1974 to 1976 (7) 19. Austin four-by-four design for military and later civilian use, built from 1951 to 1956 with a Rolls-royce engine (5) 20. Giugiaro design concept car in 2002; later, from 2005, produced by 9 down to succeed the discontinued GTV model (5) 21. Maserati’s V6engined mini-supercar, built from 1972 to 1982 (5)
Answers to last month’s crossword Across: 7. Amazon 8. Celica 10. Triumph 11. Leone
12. Amon 13. Spoke 17. Sabre 18. Bebe 22. Capri
23. Amilcar 24. Ascona 25. Darrin
Down: 1. Mantuan 2. Davison 3. Cosmo 4. Weslake
5. Bijou 6. Facel 9. Chaparral 14. Variant 15. Mercury
16. Sebring 19. Eclat 20. Space 21. Midas