I own a Meyers Manx here in Florida. I love the Manx. It has brought me more smiles and admiration in one month than my 1969 Camaro SS/RS Big Block in a year. Thanks Bruce
RIP Bruce, back around 1969 i had a fenced empty lot with a oil pumper behind my apartment in Huntington Beach, I had bought a 1953 VW Kombi Safari 20 some window tour Bus supposedly brought over from Switzerland with portholes & sunroof and pop open windshields, it was a little more than rough around the edges, a bit rusty and needed an engine, but for $40 i just had to have it to build a camper, That started a hoarding problem i had with old VWs. Well in those years it seemed so many Hippies were coming out to California driving worn out VW's, I started buying their cars down at the beach for a few bucks and usually pushing them a couple blocks to my once empty lot behind my apartment. Finally i found a newer '67 bug that i paid $100 for, Most i ever paid for a beat VW. It was a 3 year old low mileage rustbucket from the east coast ,but it had a very good running 1500 engine for my Camper Bus. Another year went by and i realized i had accumulated over 50 VW's all stuffed tight in the once empty lot and i was now starting to park them on the street. I had 10-15 Buses including a couple rare double barn door panel- delivery units (barn doors on both sides of bus, a couple other panel vans, some window buses & a couple single cab & a double cab Transporter, 30+ Bugs a few Ghias, most were 1950's and a few built in 1960's which means none of the cars were more than 20 years old at that time I was thinking about building baja bugs, i had a '59 bug that had drunk dents all around it and looked as if it was the winner in a demolition derby for imports, so i bobbed the front & rear, put a Bus transaxel in it for gearing & ground clearance and adapted some 19.5 motorhome wheels with mud & snow tires for even more ground clearance and called it good. nothin fancy just a fun desert rig. Well my landlord came over one day and told me the VW's in the lot behind my apartment had to go,, all of them. That's when i met Bruce Meyers & a couple of his buddies through a friend, I sold those guys the whole fleet of VW's for $2000, I had about $500 invested in all of them., So i was sitting all fat and sassy, i parked my Bus & Baja Bug, grabbed my surfboard and some clothes and moved to Hawaii for a few years. I had no idea all those VW's were going to become dune buggy material. Those guys were amused by my homebrew Baja bug and my off road tour camper bus, i had built an A frame cabin style roof in place of the sunroof so i could stand up inside, did alot of woodwork inside using old teak & mahogany wood from old sailboat interiors that i pieced together. It was bent and spent on the outside but did the job & alot of off road traveling throughout the southwest. Had alot of affordable fun back then well before people got so crazy serious about cars . A VW purist would have a double bypass heart attack if they ever saw what i did to that super rare VW bus back then, Today seeing these garage queens go for $100-$200k is quite insane. Of coarse a new VW or Harley Davidson went for around $1500 out the door back in the 60's & minimum wage was 95 cents- $1.10 an hour, Gas under 20 cents a gallon for regular plus a teddy bear, steak knife set or a whole wad of blue chip stamps as a perk with fill -up during gas wars..
I own a Meyers Manx here in Florida. I love the Manx. It has brought me more smiles and admiration in one month than my 1969 Camaro SS/RS Big Block in a year. Thanks Bruce
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RIP Bruce, back around 1969 i had a fenced empty lot with a oil pumper behind my apartment in Huntington Beach, I had bought a 1953 VW Kombi Safari 20 some window tour Bus supposedly brought over from Switzerland with portholes & sunroof and pop open windshields, it was a little more than rough around the edges, a bit rusty and needed an engine, but for $40 i just had to have it to build a camper, That started a hoarding problem i had with old VWs. Well in those years it seemed so many Hippies were coming out to California driving worn out VW's, I started buying their cars down at the beach for a few bucks and usually pushing them a couple blocks to my once empty lot behind my apartment. Finally i found a newer '67 bug that i paid $100 for, Most i ever paid for a beat VW. It was a 3 year old low mileage rustbucket from the east coast ,but it had a very good running 1500 engine for my Camper Bus. Another year went by and i realized i had accumulated over 50 VW's all stuffed tight in the once empty lot and i was now starting to park them on the street. I had 10-15 Buses including a couple rare double barn door panel- delivery units (barn doors on both sides of bus, a couple other panel vans, some window buses & a couple single cab & a double cab Transporter, 30+ Bugs a few Ghias, most were 1950's and a few built in 1960's which means none of the cars were more than 20 years old at that time I was thinking about building baja bugs, i had a '59 bug that had drunk dents all around it and looked as if it was the winner in a demolition derby for imports, so i bobbed the front & rear, put a Bus transaxel in it for gearing & ground clearance and adapted some 19.5 motorhome wheels with mud & snow tires for even more ground clearance and called it good. nothin fancy just a fun desert rig. Well my landlord came over one day and told me the VW's in the lot behind my apartment had to go,, all of them. That's when i met Bruce Meyers & a couple of his buddies through a friend, I sold those guys the whole fleet of VW's for $2000, I had about $500 invested in all of them., So i was sitting all fat and sassy, i parked my Bus & Baja Bug, grabbed my surfboard and some clothes and moved to Hawaii for a few years. I had no idea all those VW's were going to become dune buggy material. Those guys were amused by my homebrew Baja bug and my off road tour camper bus, i had built an A frame cabin style roof in place of the sunroof so i could stand up inside, did alot of woodwork inside using old teak & mahogany wood from old sailboat interiors that i pieced together. It was bent and spent on the outside but did the job & alot of off road traveling throughout the southwest. Had alot of affordable fun back then well before people got so crazy serious about cars . A VW purist would have a double bypass heart attack if they ever saw what i did to that super rare VW bus back then, Today seeing these garage queens go for $100-$200k is quite insane. Of coarse a new VW or Harley Davidson went for around $1500 out the door back in the 60's & minimum wage was 95 cents- $1.10 an hour, Gas under 20 cents a gallon for regular plus a teddy bear, steak knife set or a whole wad of blue chip stamps as a perk with fill -up during gas wars..
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