To this day, the Meyers Manx dune buggy has a cult following with fans all over the country. In recent years, the Meyers Manx has made a resurgence with an EV version and a new 2+2 body.
The all-electric dune buggy Volkswagen refused to build is finally ... The first Manx featured a custom fiberglass monocoque body with embedded steel mounting points and reinforcements.
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 ...
To fill the fun gap, at least for now, [James Biggar] built what you can’t buy: an all-electric dune buggy. And lest you ... to handle rough terrain. The body panels are sheet aluminum bent ...
It's ordinarily folded up beneath the body and held under tension by a structure called the retinaculum. When the furcula is released from the retinaculum it snaps down hard against the group ...