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 vehicle, ...

The Mercedes-created Smart, for all its tiny charm, isn't a great car and it sells horribly. I think I have a solution to both problems: turn it into a dune buggy. I remember as a kid, even in my ...

Volkswagen is again reaching back to the future with a new concept for an electric car that revives the look and spirit of the classic VW-based dune buggies of 1960s California. The I.D. Buggy follows ...

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 ...

The Dune Buggy is arguably one of the most iconic vehicles of the 20th Century. But in spite of its notoriety, plenty of confusion still swirls around about it, with people assuming that it’s a ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The classic dune buggy: It's part car... part play toy... part surf culture. "It's a significant piece of automotive history," said veteran car designer and historian Stewart ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California’s Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and changed his life: a handful of old, ...

Imagine building or buying a kit car, such as a Meyers Manx dune buggy, driving it legally for years, only to have the government tell you it’s no longer legal and demand that you turn in your title ...

CARMEL, Calif. -- No car stands for the fun of California like the dune buggy. The little car literally kicks sand in the face of the conventional auto industry. Instead of being heavy and ...

DETROIT — Grab your snowboard or sandboard and go. That's the idea behind a dune buggy concept car version of Volkswagen's Beetle unveiled Monday at the Detroit auto show. VW envisions the Beetle Dune ...