There aren’t many 88-year-olds who would strap into a dune buggy and race across the Baja peninsula. But there aren’t many 88-year-olds like Bruce Meyers – a Southern California native who ...

New York-based Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) released a set of renderings to preview the 008 Baja Dakar Buggy ... on the decades-old concept of a dune buggy. Its front end is characterized ...

In the photos above, the red dune buggy is a Meyers Manx ... dune buggies included a hardcore desert racer called the Hurst Baja Boot that the actor raced in the 1969 Baja 1000 and other grueling ...

He was still driving his original dune buggy, named Old Red. “All I wanted to do was go surfing in Baja when I built the dang thing,” he said in a 2001 interview, adding the first vehicles ...

He had just created the Meyers Manx, the first "dune buggy." It is now known as the most ... and the race is now known as the Baja 1000. Meyer's service in World War II was just the beginning ...

When Bruce Meyers invented the Dune Buggy in a small garage in Newport Beach ... his surfing buddies could drive on the cheap down in Baja so they could cart their boards and themselves to ...

Eventually, my little bet with some bikers turned into the Baja 1000." Wound with Californian ... In '94, I went to a dune buggy festival in Le Mans and led a procession of 1,100 cars around ...

is meant to evoke Baja Bugs. Those modified Type 1 Beetles, created in the image of the Meyers Manx, could be anything from a recreational dune buggy to a bona fide desert racer. While there wasn ...

He went on to win the first Baja 1000 (Mexican 1000) in a Manx. Meyers shut down the company that made the original fiberglass dune buggy kit in 1971, but he went back into business in 2000 ...