Malcolm Buckler wrote to tell us of his late father, Derek Buckler, who designed and built a range of Buckler sports specials, about 300-400 between 1947 and about 1962. These had tubular space-frame chassis. In the late 1950s, a small number of Buckler cars were produced using the MGA as a donor.
Malcolm's brother-in law, Keith Ambrose, runs one which was built from a Buckler kit in 1959 by a magazine called Cars Illustrated. It has a rather unusual GRP body by AKS. The chassis is a Buckler DD2 space frame variant, specially designed for the MGA conversion. Steering, front suspension and transmission are MGA but rear suspension uses Buckler coil spring damper units with a Panhard rod.



The engine is MGA and is supercharged by a Peco unit, but this is not in use at the moment. The brakes and wheels are MGA twin cam and the handbrake is hydraulic.
The car is considerably lighter than the normal MGA and the roadholding is superb. Those with sharp eyes will notice that the screen has been changed for an MGB type in recent years.