Meyers Manx & The Brubaker Box | Unique Vehicles Based off the Iconic VW Beetle
Published on November 26, 2024
Cars Are What You Make of Them
Today Jonee Eisen takes us through two made-in-California vehicles based on the ever-so-popular VW Bug. The Meyers Manx was produced by his Fountain Valley, California company, B. F. Meyers & Co. from 1964 to 1971, in the form of car kits applied to the shortened chassis of Volkswagen Beetles. Also known as a dune buggy its almost instant popularity combined with its simplicity will be also its Achilles' heel.
Less popular but equally awesome looking the Brubaker Box was a car designed by Curtis Brubaker. In 1972, after a deal with Volkswagen could not be reached, Brubaker began buying completed Beetles and converting them to Boxes. However, this scheme did not prove profitable, and very few Boxes were ever constructed. Here at the museum, you can admire one of the few originally built by Brubaker before he sold his company to the LA-based Automecca, who tried themselves unsuccessfully to produce the box.
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