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November 18, 2008
Dune Buggy Done Right
By Dan Strohl
Hemmings Motor News
Here in the wooly Northeast, even in the summertime, it’s not often one spies a dune buggy, far from its ancestral home of sun, sand and surf. But the last couple years, I’ve spotted this blue buggy with all the right touches here and there, and it makes me feel funny inside, like there’s something missing from my life—like a topless, doorless fiberglass bucket wrapped around my hide with just a single-hoop rollbar over my head would fill that hole.
Most recently, I spotted it at our Musclepalooza VIII at Lebanon Valley Dragway at the end of August, a bright sunny day that showed off the bass boat worthy metalflake in the paint. Again, though, I couldn’t find the owner around anywhere, so I couldn’t tap him for information about it, so I’ve yet to suss out what company built the tub (I’m pretty sure it’s not a Meyers Manx) and what VW engine he’s got pushing the thing.
Still, I can’t help but appreciate the polished mags, the square-shouldered bias-plies and the Miller beer tap handle atop the shifter.
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dinocane
May 29, 2009 at 2:44 pm
That’s a Bush Buggy, it was made by a company in California named Virgil’s. I have one I’m working on right now. It has a short VW pan under it. I’m trying to have mine ready by the end of summer.
Anonymous
Nov 21, 2008 at 9:24 pm
are you sure? cause school doesnt just end after 4th grade.
LIL JACCZ
Nov 21, 2008 at 6:51 pm
im done wit skool bitCh. yo dumb azz need 2 go baC 2 skool
Anonymous
Nov 20, 2008 at 8:17 pm
ahahaha i dont want my own website, its all over-rated. as for you i thhink you need to go back to school.
JR
Nov 20, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I think its funny looking, but in a good way. I am not a fan of buggies but i would be more than happy to go play on the dunes with that buggy if it had some big paddle tires on it!
LIL JACCZ
Nov 20, 2008 at 6:48 pm
shut up bitch. dont be mad cuz u dont have your own website
Anonymous
Nov 20, 2008 at 3:50 pm
so CD will trash talk a hand made one-off concept but praise a crappy vdub buggy with a hot wheels inspired paint job? god you people dont deserve a website or anything.
Anonymous
Nov 20, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Hell of a ride, not too many of those runnin the streets any more! I have one back in the US that my old man has in storage for till I get back. I was in the middle of restoring it when I recieved orders to go overseas. Sucks, but what ya gonna do? Great job at keepin it alive!!!
IH-international
Nov 19, 2008 at 11:10 pm
has a set of extremely rare 1965 impala blue dot taillights!!!
Anonymous
Nov 19, 2008 at 11:10 pm
has a set of extremely rare 1965 impala blue dot taillights!!!
Driving School Sydney
Nov 19, 2008 at 6:17 am
“the polished mags, the square-shouldered bias-plies and the Miller beer tap handle atop the shifter”, sounds interesting.
StuckeyJ
Nov 19, 2008 at 5:29 am
Too bad he used a crappy cheapo center console. If he lets me ride it, I would be willing to build him a custom console
Jeremy
Nov 18, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Bass boat paint and a beer tap shifter. A Miller beer tap shifter. Yea he’s defintely done it right
Russ
Nov 18, 2008 at 11:08 pm
How much for the Chevy in the background?…lol. Dune Buggy’s are a blast, I wish I had one. I rented one for a day years ago in Cozumel, we had a wild time with that thing…..until it started raining out!