Dave Barrett makes the Manx chassis in Fresno, California for air cooled VW based fiber glass bodied dune buggys. Manx Chassis video
Monthly Archives: September 2015
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In the late 1950s this was one of the first all metal kit car dune buggy built on a VW Beetle shortened pan or frame. EMPI owned part of Land Sea Air Inc., Riverside California. They sold lots of plans and lots of kits. The EMPI Sportsters where built at […]
Meyers Manx was the big deal in the 1960s because it was cheap and simple and used a VW Beetle running gear. All you needed was a kit from Bruce Meyers and a VW Beetle to use for the running gear. You first had to take the body off the […]
In spring of 1995, I was headed for the new Blue Horizon Lodge in Belize out on Northeast Cay. I had been fishing Belize for 10 years and was looking for ‘the Permit place’. I had heard stories many years ago from a customer who went to the Blue Marlin Lodge […]
You can visit Belize any time because the weather does not change all that much through the year being located so close to the equator. June through October is the official hurricane season in the tropics but September/October are actually considered the peak months. I still don’t know if […]
‘Baby Tarpon’ or ‘Mangrove Tarpon’ are normally considered to be around 5 to 30 pounds but they can be much smaller (12″) or larger (50#) at times. They live in warm shallow waters along the coast of tropical areas on shallow grass flats, up jungle rivers, in tidal creeks, back […]
This is just going to be a lot of general information that should help you be more successful in your first endeavors chasing the “Gray Ghost” … The Bonefish is very special because it will come up onto very shallow water called “flats” with the incoming tide and feed on […]
We were over on the Gualala River around Christmas and New Years in the 1970s. It was cold and gray over there. The bar at the mouth was open and the river was running just enough water. We were fishing in Minor and Thompson pool a ways above the Highway […]
Date: June 2003 I have read about these wonderful shallow fertile trout lakes for most of my life. There are 220 lakes to fish within one hour’s drive of the little town of Kamloops , BC. According to my sources, May and June are prime months for fly fishing these […]
I sold and used the old Pflueger ‘Medalist’ fly reels for over 40 years now. Actually we don’t sell them anymore but you can get very nice old ones on eBay, fly fishing classifieds and at garage sales. At one time they were the standard fly reel for most fly fishers in the USA. My […]