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The original from the beach - Meyers Manx Dune Buggy

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Created on January 25, 2017

Reading time 7min

Written by:

Bruno von Rotz

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Erik Fuller - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

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Erik Fuller - Courtesy RM Sotheby's

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - eng am Original geblieben

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - zeigte sich damals den meisten Allradlern überlegen

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - viel Traktion, wenig Gewicht - ideal auf Sand

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - bereit für den Ritt auf den Dünen

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - beliebt am Strand, aber nicht nur dort

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - schlichte Formgebung und Froschaugen

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - hohes Heck, fette Reifen

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - prägte die Form aller weiteren Buggies

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - die Rücklichter sind natürlich vom Käfer

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - Tiefbettfelgen und Überrollbügel gehörten dazu

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - die Vorderachse vom Käfer

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - Lenkrad aus dem Käfer

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - mehr Frischluft geht fast nicht

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - Tachometer aus dem Käfer

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - man konnte den Buggy selber bauen, oder man wandte sich an einen Spezialisten wie Haddock

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - auch Meyers vergab Seriennummer für seine Aufbauten

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - Spaghetti-Auspuff - nicht überall erlaubt

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Meyers Manx Dune Buggy (1963) - so schön glänzt der Käfermotor meist nur im Buggy

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Meyes Manx Buggy auf dem Cover von Hot Rod im August 1966

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Brigitte Bardot mit einem Meyers Manx Buggy am Strand

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Autodynamics Deserter (1970) - optisch immer noch nahe am Meyers-Manx

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Summary

Although Bruce Meyers did not invent the buggy, with his Meyers Manx he created the prototype of the pleasing Volkswagen-based Dune Buggy clad in a plastic body. Although Meyers himself did not become rich by copying it hundreds of times, his designs are still regarded as the purest representatives of the species. This vehicle report tells the story of the Meyers Manx and shows an example in many pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

The dunes are calling
Technician and aesthete
The first design with a monocoque
Robust and fast
Less is more
Success and imitators
An original
Further information

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

They embodied a new lifestyle and made their owners look younger, the buggies of the sixties and seventies. The new trend came from the USA, of course, and was significantly influenced by one man and his product: Bruce Meyers and his Meyers Manx. Somewhere between California and Mexico, where there are hardly any roads but all the more sand, recreational sports enthusiasts had the idea after the Second World War that there had to be alternatives to the heavy 4x4 off-road vehicles in order to be able to move faster in the dunes. So they took the chassis of a decommissioned limousine, dispensed with the bodywork and other weight-enhancing comfort elements, fitted thick wheels at the rear and the "Dune Buggy" was born. One of these off-roader developers named Scott McKenzie, but he was probably not alone in this, discovered in the Beetle platform a superior alternative to the heavy V8 constructions with rigid axles and front engine. The rear engine ensured traction, the four individually suspended wheels ensured contact with the ground and without a body, a Beetle chassis was also very light.

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