Cars
Dave Barrett makes the Manx chassis in Fresno, California for air cooled VW based fiber glass bodied dune buggys. Manx Chassis video
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 […]
This is my latest purchase, a Corsair Stripper Dune Buggy, that was built in the 1970s in Southern Cal by Chuck Beck. It is one of about 160 that were built with a custom tube frame with a removable fiberglass body. It has early 1970s VW Bettle running gear which […]