The Meyers Manx, the original VW Beetle-based dune buggy, was all about having fun on wheels. “The car reeks ‘I want to be young again,’” its creator, the late Bruce Meyers, told Hemmings back in 2009 ...

The all-electric dune buggy Volkswagen refused to build is ... original Manx than the later models you know. The first Manx featured a custom fiberglass monocoque body with embedded steel mounting ...

and the resulting modern offerings like the electric Manx 2.0. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the buggy, Manx has put out a coffee-table book from Bruce's beginnings to the present day.