Bill Buckle Motors, the NSW car retailer that in the 1950s and 1960s had a side business manufacturing fibreglass versions of the Glas Goggomobil sedan, coupe, ute and van and then made its own open-top car, the Dart, has been sold to a large car retail group. Remembering the company that started in 1927 selling Talbots, is this pic of the Buckle (nee Goggomobil) Transporter (known as the TL). It was first shown at the 1956 IFMA show and was built after a request from the German Federal Postal Service which bought more than 2000 TLs between October 1957 and November 1965. The van was 2.9m long and had a 392cc two-stroke, in-line two-cylinder engine rated at 13.8kW and a four-speed manual gearbox. It had sliding front doors. It was available as an enclosed van with double back doors or as a pickup with a tailgate to the open bed. Glas and Buckle made a total of 3667 Transporter vans and utes. Anybody have one?