Due to a lack of VW Beetle donors for the chassis, only a few people build fun cars like Nice Price or No Dice Dune Buggy. It`s a shame and it makes fun cars like this a rare commodity. Let us decide what all this might be worth. Instead, it`s for a fun trip to the beach, or maybe actually on the actual dunes on that beach once you get there. To keep everyone in the car, there are four-point Crow belts everywhere. The fiberglass looks solid and the tires seem to have a good button, so there`s not much you can do to upgrade the buggy, other than installing those turn signals and maybe a few windshield wipers. With that sweat in mind, what should we think of this $8,500 Dune Buggy asking price? This gives you an impractical but fun car, and one that represents a bit of automotive legend – that of the Dune Buggy madness of the late 1960s and early 70s. It`s not a one-trick pony, as it`s supposed to be street legal and actually has a license plate with seemingly current tags. However, it is not 100% roadworthy, as there are no windshield wipers and no turn signals other than an outstretched or twisted arm. There are small dents on the hood for the placement of the first and the seller says that the second comes with the car and only has to be installed.
What do you think, is this Dune buggy worth that $8,500 as it is featured in its ad? Or does this price push you into the buggy? Help me with NPOND. Come rob@jalopnik.com and tip me at a fixed price. Don`t forget to attach your kinja handle. This 1964 Dune buggy is described as a „Manx replica” in its commercial, but if you look at its double-nosed nose and 2+2 seats, you can see it`s a bit off the mark. Still, he looks just as fun and seems to be in great shape too. San Diego, California, Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears. According to the announcement, the car runs on a 1964 Volkswagen Type 1 chassis and carries a 1600cc VW Flat Four in the rear. The transaxle is, of course, a four-speed manual transmission.
The odometer is said to be broken, so the mileage of these mechanisms is unknown. Although it has a 302-horsepower four-cam V8 and punchy aesthetics, some of you felt that yesterday`s 2003 Mercury Marauder was still a grandfather`s car. This opinion could be debated, but to defend the car – and the imaginary owner – Marauder`s property would involve a pretty cool grandfather. Not so cool was the Marauder`s $19,500 prize. According to the vote, up to 78% of you thought it deserved defeat without dice. When Bruce Meyers invented the buggy in a small garage in Newport Beach, California, in 1964, he had no intention of creating an automotive icon. Instead, he was simply trying to do something that he and his surfer friends could climb on the cheap Down of Baja so they could carry their boards and himself to the beach. Keyword Surfer Girl by the Beach Boys. All existing lights are LEDs, including a horizontal light strip mounted at the top of the cage. The ad claims that the metal roof panels behind it are removable.
There doesn`t seem to be any other kind of weather protection on the car, but it shouldn`t matter because it`s not something you would take on a rescue mission during a typhoon or anything like that. This original Meyers Manx, as Bruce called it because of its almost non-existent rear overhang, launched a whole new class of cars and spawned countless copycat companies that relied on Meyers` hard work. In fact, so many companies tore up Meyer`s original design that he intentionally made the next car, the Manx SR, much harder to copy.
