GOGGO-EYED
Way back pre decimal currency and before the imperial measurement system went west, in 1961 to be exact, I purchased for my retired Mum a small car to enable her to get about in the big smoke of Sydney. Yes…I bought her a Goggomobil T300. It had an overgrown Bill Buckle-built two-stroke lawnmower engine with a motorcycle type gearbox.
It was my Mum’s baby and we bought it damaged, with ‘the thing’ being hit from the rear and featuring a busted near side quarter panel. Of course the whole body was fibreglass with two doors and
