{"id":2869,"date":"2017-09-10T08:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T08:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2017-09-10T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T14:21:59","slug":"goggomobil-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/goggomobil-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"Goggomobil Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1950s saw the emergence of the world&#8217;s most prominent microcars, fuelled by the need to space-save on urban backdropped roads. Australian automotive dealer and engineer Bill Buckle, following the success of his similarly-fibreglass bodied Buckle GT, formed a deal with Hans Glass GmbH\u2019s\u00a0Goggomobil, whereby the German company would provide components and a small batch of vehicles to facilitate the production of a local model. Following suit, Buckle and his team produced their own Goggomobil-branded vehicle, the Dart, specifically formulated for the Australian market, with a light\u00a0345kg body\u00a0clad with bright fibreglass panels\u00a0and a clean, uninterrupted chassis with a notable\u00a0absence of doors. Largely forgotten, Buckle Motors is said to have produced 700 examples up to the termination\u00a0of production in 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1950s saw the emergence of the world&#8217;s most prominent microcars, fuelled by the need to space-save on urban backdropped roads. Australian automotive dealer and engineer Bill Buckle, following the success of his similarly-fibreglass bodied Buckle GT, formed a deal with Hans Glass GmbH\u2019s\u00a0Goggomobil, whereby the German company would provide components and a small batch &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}