That, so they called up their friend Blake Wilkey to bring his custom “Class Fun” VW Beetle dune buggy out to the dragstrip. Wilkey’s buggy is powered by an LS3 V8 engine with a Magnuson ...

The world had discovered the dune buggy ... version of the custom built vehicles he witnessed roaring up and down southern California beaches — based on a modified VW Beetle frame and drivetrain.

Veteran dune buggy manufacturer Meyers Manx ... company founder Bruce Meyers started building custom fiberglass dune buggies atop a shortened VW Beetle frame. For approximately six years, the ...

Building a dune buggy? Just locate a junkyard Beetle, remove the body, and replace it with a custom body. In the early '60s, Meyers was poking around the dunes in a modified VW Microbus.

Though VW made a Beetle convertible, the custom style was proliferated by ... VW is upfront about the fact that the electric dune buggy would be of relatively limited appeal.

Dune buggies popped up in the news several times this week. The open-bodied American car culture icon that took hold in the 1960s on shortened VW Beetle chassis inspired a VW electric concept ...

as Corsair Cars produced this dune buggy between 1980 and 1984. The Stripper buggy was designed by Chuck Beck, a custom car builder who later became known among car enthusiasts for his high ...

If you happen to be looking to do something illogical with your money, though, why not spend some of it on a V8-powered custom buggy ... funded 401k or a 400 hp dune buggy that's allegedly street ...

The custom car phenomenon is as old as the second-hand car, yet somehow the decades which stick in the mind as their heyday are the 1960s and 1970s. If you didn’t have a dune buggy or a van with ...