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Buckler Cars were well represented in
New Zealand
and had a dealer in
Australia
Buckler Cars NZ were imported by Arthur Harris
during the 1950's. Some Chassis were built
under licence . For more info please read
Kelvin Brown's great book
The famous Phil Kerr was actually company
secretary of Bucklers (N.Z.) Ltd. Also of
interest is that Buckler Cars H.Q., in
England, made the first handful of Brabham
chassis. for more info click here
http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/cref-11902.html
The Australian distributor of Buckler
products.
Donald Gorringe Pty Ltd
72 Argyle Street
Hobart, Tasmania.
Goringe's Garage still exists but we can
find no information about which cars were
imported and what tuning parts arrived.
Records show that they were Importers of
Buckler Front suspension in 1950 and by 1955
became distributors of Buckler cars and
Tuning equipment.
There was a car called a 'Buckle' made in
Australia this car was fitted with the Ford
Zephyr mechanicals and may be confused with
the Buckler.
To confuse things further, Buckler's also
produced tuning equipment for the Zephyr
range.
What we do know is that Jon Leighton
imported a car personally.
This car was a DD2 designed using square
section tubes. This was the first and as far
as we are aware the only Buckler chassis
built in this manner, although some special
one off chassis were known to have square
tubes fitted to certain parts of the
chassis also some of the later chassis used
very small square tubes as body supports
etc. Also see the
MRD Formula Junior for
details.
Noel Tuckey owns a special that may be a
Buckler, though this has never been
verified.
One Buckler, possibly a MK 5 - was spotted
in Tweed Heads in the 1970s but has not been
seen since. We are still looking... If any
one has any information. There is a reward
for a decent lead!!! |
