The Roaring Season

Roger Dowding wrote:Rhys, Yes the white Buckler is Scott Wiseman, had that advised from another source on Facebook from Graham Kyle, who was a racer in Morgan's and others back in 1970's,now living in Sweden.
Scott's car is the Jarvie Body as mentioned by you Rhys
Cheers

Roger

Roger, I had already said that! Shouldn't have included the "probably". I along with Kelvin have collated a spreadsheet of all the known "real" Bucklers that were in NZ with all known owners, except for the last 90 I owned myself which we can only get back till 1969. Even Bruce Sutcliffe didn't know of it. (I have now owned/own 3)

Here is one for Grant Ellwood which shows B.Harvie in Cooper S # 77 and Bryan Faloon in his Anglia # 57 cornering at different angles !
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Ken, thanks for the #57 Anglia pic, I'll add it to my collection! Nice coincidence that Brian Harvie is in the frame too, he owned the Peter Bennett A40 prior to Peter acquiring it. Currently prepping the Farina for the coming season here.

Why I'm not in the workshop this week....

Hi Grant, damn that is cold, I don't blame you for not going into the shed, does it get that cold every year ?


Bruce.

Zero here in Tamworth UK today, but that was celsius so quite a bit warmer than that. Thank goodness for the heater I culd get under the car and bring the steering closer to how it was.

Not quite the horsepower of an aero engine though

What became of this Buckler and driver from this 1964 Ahuriri race incident ?




(Ken H)

Bruce302 wrote:Hi Grant, damn that is cold, I don't blame you for not going into the shed, does it get that cold every year ?


Bruce.

Hi Bruce, I've never seen it that cold before, minus 8C would be the lowest in my part of Virginia. I took the photo at 8am but it was a bit colder at 6am - minus 20C. Bugger! I'm looking forward to moving to coastal North Carolina this year.

khyndart in CA wrote:What became of this Buckler and driver from this 1964 Ahuriri race incident ?

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(Ken H)

From the Motorman report

That is the Buckler made as an "authorised copy" by Dennis Lyndesay and his brother in law Ray Tyler. They bought the bits for one car, and with agreement from Buckler NZ who couldn't supply enough to meet demand made a similar chassis, but mainly straight tubes. Graham Thomas, is who many of folks on here know as Dewar. He made a number of changes to the car largely in suspension. After selling he moved to Europe and his place in the F1 scene.
He told me some time ago that there was extensive damage, and that it was dismantled for parts. What became of the chassis and body is unknown. It does not appear to have surfaced again after that.

My buddy just sent a car to Westminster Mass, -20 c there too. I do a lot of stuff but not below zero.
Good luck with the move, should be a bit better out there.

B.

Grant Ellwood wrote:Hi Bruce, I've never seen it that cold before, minus 8C would be the lowest in my part of Virginia. I took the photo at 8am but it was a bit colder at 6am - minus 20C. Bugger! I'm looking forward to moving to coastal North Carolina this year.

You're into hot rod's now ?

B

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Not quite the horsepower of an aero engine though

Yes Bruce, the roaring power of a whole 635 (or thereabouts) cc. 0 to 30 time of "eventually".

Oldfart wrote:Yes Bruce, the roaring power of a whole 635 (or thereabouts) cc. 0 to 30 time of "eventually".

...and I see 6 wheel nuts, that's ambitious, and "eventually" can be a long time, not that many hills there either

Six stud wheels in low powered cars were not unknown...

Morris 8/40, for instance.

Is this the vehicle ? I suppose the engineering was in it's infancy.

Ray Bell wrote:Six stud wheels in low powered cars were not unknown...

Morris 8/40, for instance.

Aussie only car, known as Morris 8 everywhere else.
It is commonly believed that the '40' represented the fuel consumption of 40 mpg at 40 mph (but may refer to 40ft.lbs torque) and the '8' naturally signified 8 horsepower RAC rating.-http://www.bmcexperience.com.au/bmce-issue6/morris-8-40

Do those figures relate to what is on the steps or what is at the top of the steps ?

Yes, 40mpg was the reason...

Buick also had an 8/40 IIRC, being 8 cylinders and 40 RAC HP.

There were a few Morris 8/40s in my family over the years. My dad recalled driving mum's father's utility from Taree to Sydney and back during the war with his mother and mum's mother in the front with him, mum (then in her late teens) and one each of her sisters and brothers in the slipstream in the back. It broke a front spring on the return journey.

Later mum had a tourer as her first car in the late fifties and my sister had a sedan as her first car in the early sixties.

No Buicks, unfortunately...

khyndart in CA wrote:Do those figures relate to what is on the steps or what is at the top of the steps ?

Sometimes, Ken, a cigar is just a cigar

I think it's quite ironic that my little Peugeot has 6 wheel studs and later the saloons such as 203, 403, 404 all had 3!
55 mpg for the Quadrilette.