Bucklers!

[Mogman]

Roger Greaney in his Buckler came out to play at Taupo last weekend as part of the VCC Hooters Vintage Series.

Photo by Ken Le Prou

[Roger Dowding]

Roger Greaney in his Buckler came out to play at Taupo last weekend as part of the VCC Hooters Vintage Series.


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Photo by Ken Le Prou

Great photo, and great looking car, beautiful body, the car, not Roger .. do not know him so cannot comment .. cheers the other Roger [ Roger D ]
PS have a few more to post soon, from Spgeti taken at Taupo in 1998..

[Roger Dowding]

More Bruce Dyer photos of two different Buckler 90's

Dewar Thomas and Garry Price - looking over car parts !!

Buckler 90 chassis 90/8 the blue car rego PC7010 that went from Dewar to Garry and to Dallas Crampton

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 ??

[Roger Dowding]

An advert by Bucklers NZ - provided by Bob Homewood on another forum ; Unsure what year but the phone number is 6 digits so in the 1970's perhaps ..

[Oldfart]

On the facebook page Dennis Marwood mentions that he bought the company around 1970 for the import licences. Became Performance Developments.
I find it interesting that the body shown in that advert is the English one on the car which Ivy owned, now back in the UK with a de Joux body. (Rivet counter)

[khyndart in CA]

In case you did not catch this on another thread there is some interesting Buckler and Elva information at this site;
(The Kiwi Connection ) prepared by Roger Dunbar.

http://www.elva.com/history/201209-kiwiconnection.php

(Ken Hyndman )

[Oldfart]

On facebook we have been discussing this car. Any further guesses will be interesting. Venue and owner would be good. I'm pretty sure it's Northland Car Club, I have made an educated guess at the ownership, but as usual, could be wrong.

[Roger Dowding]

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Oldfart .. Rhys,I presume that you have posted this on David Montgomery's Facebook page,?? haven't been in to there recently, cheers

[Oldfart]

Yes Roger, it was David who asked me to try to identify it for the new owner in the Netherlands of one of NZ's better 90s.
Yes another gone overseas, nobody in NZ seems to want them.

[Roger Dowding]

Yes Roger, it was David who asked me to try to identify it for the new owner in the Netherlands of one of NZ's better 90s.
Yes another gone overseas, nobody in NZ seems to want them.

Rhys, I went to the Buckler page and you got a lot of comments, sounds like many Classics and Specials, gone overseas !! Cheers

[Paul B]

Yes Roger, it was David who asked me to try to identify it for the new owner in the Netherlands of one of NZ's better 90s.
Yes another gone overseas, nobody in NZ seems to want them.

Hi Guys,
I would like to restore a buckler in the future (if there is a complete-ish one about ) I need to finish my Falcon sprint first.
Cheers

[Oldfart]

PM sent Paul

[Kevin Hirst]

Hi Guys,
I would like to restore a buckler in the future (if there is a complete-ish one about ) I need to finish my Falcon sprint first.
Cheers

Me to,

[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 ;

David Child provided the photo.

one of my own photos, AHCCNZ Hill Climb,mid 1980's [ posted before ].

Unsure which of the events, my photos were from a number of years from 1984/5 on to 1989/90 ..

[BMCBOY]

I took these photos at Chelsea Hillclimb in 2010

[Paul Wilkinson]

Ferris and the Ivy Stephenson Buckler feature in this clip from the 70's along with a lot of other interesting local cars.

de Joux Mini GT 7:40ish
Steel Brothers Lotus Seven 8:49ish
Buckler 9:52ish

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[Roger Dowding]

I took these photos at Chelsea Hillclimb in 2010

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The Car is now in Europe owned by a guy called Bart Jonkers, only arrived there a few weeks ago !!

[Roger Dowding]

[Paul B]

Roger,
Those bucklers sure do have nice lines. Shame we are loosing these to Europe.
Cheers

[Roger Dowding]

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

AHCCNZ Otaua Hill Climb 1985 ish

Just realised posted both these photos previously, and BMC BOY has a few of the car at Chelsea in 2010..