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AHCCNZ Classic Hillclimb Otaua, 1980's pics
posted on my AHCC thread a couple of Bucklers at Otaua.
Taken from the same spot but looking at the background different years, this was from a Marshall point near the the top of the hill, there was a farmers drive way that I would park my Healey, and then stand back from the sweeping curve to watch and advise the start and finish guys as the cars went past, or when they didn't a Jag actually finished up against that power pole one year, there was a haybale there to soften the effect !!
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Bucklers in New Zealand - Ross Hollings pictures and others
Posted Ross's pictures on another thread, but the three Buckler photo's from Taupo in 1990 belong here, as does Ross Hollings Humber 80 Special, which looks like a Buckler, Ross sold the car and it went overseas, and now believed to be in Queensland.
The group at Taupo, some well known cars !!. have details of whose cars they were, must look it up and add to the post..
Kelvin Brown, who wrote the book on Bucklers in NZ advises as follows " Group picture at Taupo Nov 91 ? Brayshaw DD2 red, Sutcliffe DD1 white, Stephens ? DD2 blue, Munns Mk.90 red, Main Mk.5/6 blue " hope that is of help..
from the rear
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from the front ..
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the front again the other end of the lineup.
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The Humber 80 Special
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another couple of Buckler photo's in New Zealand ..
Jim Boyd at Levin in 1956 - Bruce Davis photo - provided to the Buckler forum by Richard Armstrong
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Bruce Sutcliffe at Pukekohe - year unknown - Stuart Short photo, Bruce has another photo taken at the same place, just has moved forward in the queue..
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Fred McLean and Bruce Suttcliffe
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Originally Posted by
Ross Hollings
Great photo,the car behind the Buckler is the NAT Special,which i bought in Christchurch from Fazzazz and competed in various events in NI, Chelsea Sugar Works,Bay Park,Puke,Pebblebrook.Now in a museum in South Island.NAT stood for Norman Arthur Tetheridge who built the car.Was red when i had it
This refers to photo of Fred McLean.Down a couple of spots.
Ross you are so right / correct .. the photo mentioned the NAT Special as the second car.. have just found .. another photo of FM Fred McLean in his Buckler at Waimate.. he is the FM in Begg FM cars .. the engineer !!..
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Here is the photo, above, and to celebrate Bruce Sutcliffe's 80th birthday, which is tomorrow, a couple of pics.. Happy Birthday Bruce .. known as New Zealand's " Mister Buckler ".
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and another Buckler ..
thanks to Classic Autonews [ Allan Dick ] and Buckler Cars and Karts Facebook pages..
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Ross Holling you have a owned a lot of cars the NAT, the Minimax, Mini Cooper[s] and others.. pleasure to know you and to have competed at the same events.. I would have been the more sedate driver, Gymkhana's and Hillclimb ..
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Bucklers - photos from Bruce Dyer - " Spgeti " taken at Manfield some years ago
Bruce has sent me 24 photos taken in and around Manfield for a Classic Race meeting, and also at the time that Garry Price purchased the Dewar Thomas Buckler 90 .. here are the Buckler photos, will post the others on a different thread, Mallock U2's, The RA 4, [ Vanguard ], Ralph Watson BSA Special LX 5504, and a Keift, as well as the Fiat Targa sports car, a U2, / Lotus 7, style car - now for sale according to Bruce's information.
First some Bucklers a chassis at the McLaren Trust display at Manfield;
Buckler MK VI - garry Price car
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The Roger Munns MK 90, views of the ELVA ohv conversion of the Ford 10 motor chassis No 1954 / 4A
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Not a Buckler but the similar bodied Humber 80 Special, owned by Ross Hollings at one time ;
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to follow are the Red 90, and the blue 90 chassis 90 / 8, owned by Dewar Thomas, bought by Garry Price and later owned and raced by Dallas Crompton, Dallas competed at the Ngawhini Hill Climb in 2002, the 50th Anniversary event.
and for variety the Fiat Targa
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Manfield is now " Manfield Circuit Chris Amon " - RIP Chris
Bruce advised that some of the photos are from Taupo, not Manfield, but the McLaren Trust shots are Manfield ..
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Bucklers - photos from Bruce Dyer - " Spgeti " taken at Taupo 1998
More Bruce Dyer photos of two different Buckler 90's
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Dewar Thomas and Garry Price - looking over car parts !!
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Buckler 90 chassis 90/8 the blue car rego PC7010 that went from Dewar to Garry and to Dallas Crampton
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Have mixed the picture up a bit, having a bad hair / car day !!
Thanks again to Bruce D for the pictures .. and have duplicated one, it would not delete I think ??
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Buckler owner driver ; Ian Hallet .. my question from 2013 ??
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Originally Posted by
Roger Dowding
Interesting stuff, thanks BMC BOY for the photos, question, who is in the Car - dark body white stripe and Roundel for the race number, the Gent has a beard, from a 1982 TACCOC sprint, ??, From memory he was quite an authority on Bucklers like Bruce Sutcliffe, and a member of the Waitemata branch of the Vintage Car Club, that ran Chelsea and other sprints / hillclimbs. ( Lyle Chambers, who had a 1930's BSA front wheel drive [ 4 wheel ] special - with a side valve Ford 10 engine in place of the four cylinder BSA, new him well. the said BSA was run at a Pukekohe sprint with owner Lyle driving and myself been given time to do a few laps too The BSA could hit about 80 mph on the back straight at Pukekohe [ pre-chicanes ] ). Also remember the Glendene Sprints, [ as pictured earlier ] where the Bucklers were and Peter Bruin's, beautiful Lotus 11 sports [ where is that car now ??].
Just going through the thread, and now remember the name of the Buckler owner / driver,it was Ian Hallet, who I know competed in Teams races with Bruce Sutcliffe and others .. have seen a photo,which I must now find.
Bart Jonkers now owns one of the Green with Yellow stripes Bucklers, the car having left New Zealand during the year.
This car ;
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David Child provided the photo.
one of my own photos, AHCCNZ Hill Climb,mid 1980's [ posted before ].
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Unsure which of the events, my photos were from a number of years from 1984/5 on to 1989/90 ..
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Bucklers leaving New Zealand
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Originally Posted by
Paul B
Roger,
Those bucklers sure do have nice lines. Shame we are loosing these to Europe.
Cheers
Yes Indeed Paul, we were talking about that at Chelsea .. the most recent is this one.
Sold to a Bart Jonkers from Netherlands - he posted photos of its arrival in Europe, and has been seeking photos of it in its previous life in NZ
This photo was sent to me - in the background is My TR4A so taken around 1979/80
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AHCCNZ Otaua Hill Climb 1985 ish
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Just realised posted both these photos previously, and BMC BOY has a few of the car at Chelsea in 2010..
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Blue Brick and others ..note by " Oldfart " from the start of this thread
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Originally Posted by
Oldfart
Well, there was a suggestion of a Buckler thread, so here goes.
It is necessary that readers remember that while I owned one “in the day” I did not actively compete, and all of what I submit is second hand.
I am very much indebted to Kelvin Brown and Bruce Sutcliffe who have been instrumental in perpetuating the appeal of the marque. Without their efforts Bucklers would have faded into oblivion in New Zealand as just “funny old cars which the old guys played with”. In the UK there is an equally prolific researcher Brian Malin and I will be pinching plenty of his stuff (with approval)
Buckler is actually very specific. It has nothing whatever to do with body styles, although the archetypal NZ Buckler 90 is clad most times with a de Joux fibreglass body. These bodies also appear on a number of other cars which are not Bucklers. In the day it was very desirable to call your Ford 10 special a Buckler, possibly like calling your Falcon GT an HO.
Buckler was a chassis and front suspension system. It’s pretty much as simple as that. They were one of the first, if not the first, manufacturers of production multi-tube frames for the masses. They were a sort of kit car manufacturer in the 50s, although of course their first chassis were produced in reasonable numbers prior to 1950.
The name comes from Derek Buckler. His base was in the area around Reading in the UK, indeed many publications refer to "Bucklers of Reading". His vision of producing a sports car began in 1945. He had well established criteria that never changed. It must be universal (be able to be used in all events from mud plug trials through to circuit racing”) cheap, reliable, have excellent road holding, good acceleration and be fuel efficient. Later on he realised as did almost everyone else, that designs needed to be more specialised.
He was not happy with conventional, for the time, ladder chassis. His background in the aircraft industry led him to what he called “Multi tube frames”. Whilst not a true space frame, they are close. The English produced frames were manufactured from Chrome Moly tube of 1” and 1 5/8”tube, these sizes stayed from the first until the last cars! The use of this tube has contributed to the high survival rate, and professional restorers almost inevitably comment on the high quality of construction
Just re-read this and the mention of the "Blue Brick ", here is a Graham Main photo of the car with others, looks like the Bruce Sutcliffe [ ex Ivy Stevenson ] DD2 and Ian Hallet's yellow car. date of photo not known .. but Rhys and others may know. borrowed from the Facebook page " Buckler Cars and Karts " as they borrow my photos too !! Kelvin Brown posted the photo..
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another Pic of the Ian Hallet car I think ?? jim Short photo ..
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It is Blue, is it the B.... Brick ? Kelvin Brown photo's
1956 at Wigram, Jim Boyd in the Buckler MK 6 behind the Allard Palm Beach with TR3 and Healey 100 close by.
Start of the Sports Car Race, Jim also ran in the Lady Wigram Trophy race
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the same Buckler at Wigram in 2018
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