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fascinating History of John Hissey’s Buckler Registered
KBU 744 in Kenya and then later after it's return to
England the car became CJK 132
Possibly a DD2? in Kenya...
Mr McNaughton at the wheel of Tony Everard's
Buckler-Climax in 1967
Kenya News. Details of a Buckler-Climax have surfaced
thanks to Duncan Ragabliati. Duncan sent in two
newspaper cuttings from the Kenyan East African
Standard, both dated 1967. It is believed that the late
Tony Everard bought the car second-hand in c1957 in
England and raced at Nakuru during the sixties (the same
circuit where John Hissey competed in 53/54) Tony passed
away in 1974.
The Buckler is missing and further details obtained are
at times conflicting. It has been established that Tony
fitted the Climax engine from a Lotus 6 that was written
off in Kenya. The original spec still has to be
determined. The photo was taken at Nakuru sometime in
the mid to late sixties and shows the Buckler with a
Mistral shell. If McNaughton and Tony Everard’s name
sound familiar they were both regular competitors in the
East African Safari Rally.
Many thanks to Brian Malin and Duncan Ragabliati for
this update.
Duncan
Rollo writes.... (and he adds...this is from memory!)
I'm still
intrigued with the Everard car because I don't remember
it racing at Nakuru. Paddy Robson drove a Climax-engined
Lotus Mk VI which I believe was destroyed when the truck
it was on had an accident. He then appeared in a
fibreglass-bodied car called an LBR - possibly
Lotus-Buckler-Robson which looked very similar to the 'Everard
car'. Colin McNaughton drove an early Elva with a 1172
Ford engine which later acquired a Climax engine, but
from where?
Everard drove in the Safari. His son was at the same
school as me and I'm sure it would have registered with
this motor racing mad schoolboy if his dad was a racing
driver.
Incidentally the Nakuru races that John Hissey mentions
were grass track races. In 1956 they built the tarmac
Nakuru Park circuit where the picture of the Cortina GT
and the Everard car was taken.
regards,
Duncan Rollo
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