Hughes500Pilot
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Location: Anaheim, CA
| What your talking about is a Meyers Manx, commonly reffered to as a Dune Buggy or Baja Bug. The best web site going is the Manx Dune Buggy Club. Click the link for their web site.
Click here for the official web site
There is a show called California's Gold on PBS. It did a 1/2 hour segment about the Dune Buggy. They even had the inventor bring out the "original" Dune Buggy and they went on a trail ride with like 300 of them.
Here is the title of this pactiular episode:
California's Gold #3002
If you want to buy a copy, click the link below.
Click here fro the link
Below is a cut and paste from their web site describing the show. -Steve
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DUNE BUGGY
Back in a Southern California garage in 1963 something amazing was happening. A 37 year old Bruce Meyers was building a car that would that would become an icon, the Meyers Manx... better know as the Dune Buggy. This simple car really springborded "off-road" racing into the huge sport it is today, cutting more than 5 hours of the pervious Baja 1000 record in its 1st try. This in turn caught the eye of Hollywood: Elvis, Lucy & Desi, Scooby-Doo all had to have one.
To quote Road and track from 1976, "The Manx has to rank as one of the most significant and influential cars of all time. It started more fads, attracted more imitators... and was recognized as a genuine sculpture, a piece of art." Join Huell as he gets many smiles per mile with Bruce Meyers, and a bunch of Meyers Manx owners as they trek through the So. Cal. landscape.
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