1956 Buckle GT Coupe - Badge Grill Headlight
by Kaye Menner
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1956 Buckle GT Coupe - Badge Grill Headlight
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Kaye Menner
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Photograph - Photography
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It was the Spring of 1953, and a young man's fancy turned to ... building cars.
Not just any young man and not just any car. Twenty-seven year old Bill Buckle had been living the dream in Britain, dabbling in motorsport, following the F1 circuit and feeding his interest in cars in general. "I had always had an interest in motorsport and cars, my father had an automotive business and I grew up around cars," Buckle recalls. "I had been following the F1 and looking at various things and I saw some of the fiberglass specials they built there and I thought they were pretty crappy and I could do better. I came back and talked the directors of Buckle Motors into letting me do it ... and we did it."
In 1955 Bill Buckle completed the prototype of his Buckle Coupe. In more primitive form than his final production cars, it was build around a Ford Zephyr engine and gearbox, Zephyr wheels, rear axle and brakes. The boxed steel chassis, transverse leaf front suspension, leaf spring rear, body and furnishings were all to come from Buckle’s works. What we saw then was a 17 cwt two-plus-two GT coupe only 4ft 2ins high overall. But it had enormous potential.
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