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BUCKLERS LEAD -- OTHERS FOLLOW |
  
Roger
Munns 90
At Mount
Cook !
Roger working hard at Chelsea
 The
Chelsea one was taken during the VCC hillclimb last
year, which I narrowly won; the Mystery Creek Hillclimb
photo during the International VCC Rally last Feb.;
while the Wigram one was photographed during the final
race meeting to be held at this famous airfield circuit
a couple of years ago. The car was timed at 105mph down
the back straight; not too bad for a 90! The circuit is
destined for re-development for housing I'm afraid.
 A
brief history of my Buckler is:
Chassis No. 1954/4A was the only 'Lightweight" Buckler
90 Chassis built. It was imported into N.Z. in 1954 &
sold to Alwyn Marshall who built the car over the next 4
years using a deJoux Mk1 body, Ford 10 running gear with
Buckler slit front axle suspension, Buckler gearbox &
differential ratios & a Ford 100E motor with Elva
overhead conversion.
Marshall, raced the car extensively in circuit races &
hillclimbs in the North Island of N.Z. between 1959 &
1963 winning many of the 'Under 1500cc Sports Car'
races. During this time he experimented with the car
using a variety of carburettors, & even had the car
supercharged at one stage; hense the very forward
location of the radiator when compared to other 90's, to
allow for the supercharger to be driven off the
crankshaft.
In
1963 the car was sold to Beaumont, then De Thiery & so
on.
Bruce Sutcliffe located the car in the 1980's as a
wreck, in a barn near Whangerai (towards the top of N.Z.).
He restored it back to it's original racing trim using a
new body taken from the original mould & fuelling it
with twin 32ml Webers. It's first race following
restoration was at the Porsche Le Mans mtg. at Pukekohe
in March 1989.
I purchased the Buckler in 1994, made it road legal by
adding headlights etc. & have raced & rallyed it fairly
extensively ever since.
regards,
Roger.
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