Building a dune buggy? Just locate a junkyard Beetle ... had completed a run on the unpaved 832-mile route of Mexico's Baja peninsula from La Paz north to Ensenada in a record 34 hours and ...

The Meyers Manx dune buggy is an icon of the 1960s and Mexico's Baja peninsula is hallowed ground for off-road racing. The history of both are intertwined, and the book Call To Baja by the Manx's ...

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 ...

This modified VW Beetle is a purpose-built nostalgic off-roader with a distinct visual identity and more punch and character ...

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 ...

During the wait the maître d' had disinterestedly asked, "Are you waiting for a guy in a dune buggy?" The Baja Bug really is the quintessential city car. It's small. It's light. It's somewhat ...

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 ...

If you never got the chance to own an original or new Meyers Manx Buggy from the 1960s ... hustle—a cheap basis for off-road builds, from baja runners to the original beach buggies, namely ...

If you didn’t have a dune buggy or a van with outrageously flared arches and an eye-hurting paint job you were nothing in those days — or at least that’s what those of us who were too young ...