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Californian dune buggy designer never got any royalties – Sydney Morning Herald
Bruce Meyers, who created the Meyers Manx buggy in California in 1964, has died aged 94.
Meyers was 37 when he started sketching his idea for the Manx, working out of his Newport Beach garage in Southern California. By then, he had shaped surfboards, built catamarans, survived a kamikaze attack in the US Navy, studied fine art and built a trading post on a coral atoll in the South Pacific. Surfing by day, playing the guitar at bars by night, he was hoping the car would be something he and his friends could use to access remote beaches in Baja.
Meyers died on Febuary 19 at his San Diego-area…
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