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The Meyers company attempted to stay ahead of this seemingly unfair competition with the release of the distinctive, and harder-to-copy, Meyers Manx Mk II design. B. F. Meyers & Co. also produced other Beetle-based vehicles, including the May 1970 Car & Driver magazine cover sporty Manx SR variant (street roadsters, borrowing some design ideas ...
The Meyers Manx 2.0 dune buggy morphs a '60s icon into a modern electric car that trades its predecessor's gas-fed VW engine for a battery-electric powertrain.
The original fiberglass dune buggy was the 1964 "Meyers Manx" built by Bruce Meyers. [2] Bruce Meyers designed his fiberglass bodies as a "kit car", using the Volkswagen Beetle chassis. [3] Many other companies worldwide have been inspired by the Manx, making similar bodies and kits. [3] These types of dune buggies are known as "clones". [2]
Plus a lot of VW parts and tender loving care. (Well, you could 50 years ago. This is from our April 1967 issue.)
Baja Bugs originated in Southern California in the late 1960s as an inexpensive answer to the successful Volkswagen-based dune buggies of the mid-1960s, especially the Meyers Manx. [2] The building of the first Baja Bug is generally credited to Gary Emory (now of Parts Obsolete), circa 1968. [ 3 ]
[104]: 99 Starting with a standard Meyers Manx, Condos and his staff modified the body and installed a 140-horsepower four-carburetor Corvair engine in the car to create the "Queen Manx". Con-Ferr and Meyers went on to build over 50 copies, called the "Manx-Vair". [105] The car was later revived as the Hunter Buggy by Universal Fiberglass. [106]
4 "Meyers Manx is the (uncredited) inspiration for the VW I.D. Buggy that debuted in Geneva"
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