The facility closure and event cancellation/postponement announcements have slowed down in recent days, but we’re glad to see news like this: Covercraft is using at least some of its facilities to pr...
Photo by Simopala. Up until late last year, the California Coastal Commission has pursued actions that would severely curtail off-highway vehicle use from Oceano Dunes, the state’s only coastal State...
Photo by Kurt Williams. Though the California Coastal Commission has backed off of its plan to ban off-highway vehicles from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area entirely, the county air ...
Photo by Sandra Foyt. Citing its mission to protect California’s coastal resources, the California Coastal Commission released a report late last week promising to effectively end off-highway vehicle...
Dune buggies lined up in front of the Texas capitol in Austin. Photo courtesy Save the Texas Dune Buggies. While dune buggy enthusiasts in Texas have claimed victory over the state’s department of mo...
Photos courtesy Randy Carlson. As a young salesman at the local Volkswagen dealership, Norman Gonzalez started socking away used Beetles as early as 1958, cherrypicking among the trade-ins that came ...
From the seller’s description: GR Auto Gallery is pleased to present this 2005 Meyers Manx SR-2 for your consideration. Styling for the SR-2 was conceived by Bruce Meyers and Stewart Reed. He did not...
Photo by C Watts. Though Texas’ H.B. 1755 doesn’t once mention dune buggies or sand rails by name, it very well could end the state’s ongoing ban on dune buggy registrations and provide a means for d...
Much like in entertainment, the show must go on in racing. That’s even after incidents that threaten to sideline the entire field of cars, such as the water-in-the-fuel episode at the 1976 24 Hours o...
In case you missed it, the entire hour-long Save the Texas Dune Buggy rally in front of the Texas state capitol – which took place this past Thursday – is still on the Save the Texas Dune Buggy Faceb...
Photo by Casey Maxon, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Bruce Meyers sees the Texas DMV’s ban on homebuilt cars as far more than just a threat to the Meyers Manx and fiberglass-bodied dune buggi...
Photo courtesy Save the Texas Dune Buggy. After tossing aside a proposed ruling that would definitively outlaw all but a minority of dune buggies in the state, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles ...
Recent build/restoration of a 1970 Meyers Manx SR2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Touted As A very Early Production Version, But A Newer Restoration, This 1970 Volkswagen Me...
For the Fourth of July, Summit’s OnAllCylinders took a look at perhaps the only vehicle to exclusively wear red, white, and blue throughout its entire production run: the AM General Dispatcher Jeep. ...
Photo courtesy SavetheTexasDuneBuggy. After denying Texas dune buggy owners’ requests to reinstate the titles that the department has revoked over the last few years, Texas Department of Motor Vehicl...
Photos courtesy Cort Elgar. Water pumpers. Pan buggies. Tunnel buggies. Sand rails. The names may all sound unfamiliar to outsiders and even to those who originally called their homebuilt rigs “dune ...
Few times in history did somebody perfectly capture a time and a place with a simple auto design as succinctly as Bruce Meyers did with the Meyers Manx dune buggy. It’s been flung across the globe, c...
Photo by Casey Maxon, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. After an extensive lobbying effort by dune buggy and kit car owners, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has put a halt to revoking dun...
1970 Meyers Manx. Photo courtesy RM Sotheby’s. While Texas state officials claim to be looking into the matter, the state’s DMV has outlawed any rebodied vehicles and has started to revoke titles and...
Volkswagen-powered Baja racers. Photos courtesy Volkswagen of America. In the late summer of 1967, the newly formed National Off-Road Racing Association (NORRA) enlisted the help of Bruce Meyers, bui...
San Francisco’s got an impressive collection of its former fire trucks, including one that fought the 1906 fire, but seeing them is problematic because they’re essentially couch surfing across the ci...
Most shorty VWs rely on the reduction in wheelbase as wow factor enough, but this 1971 Volkswagen Beetle for sale on Hemmings.com used a cut-n-shut as the launchpad for a whole transformation into a ...
Coulda sworn we had another Alaska carspotting picture to go with yesterday’s submitted photo of Anchorage, but apparently not. So instead, let’s travel to the other non-contiguous U.S. state today w...