{"id":160573,"date":"2021-02-28T10:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160573"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:27:49","slug":"meyers-manx-dune-buggy-creator-dead-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=160573","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Meyers Manx\u2019 dune buggy creator dead at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California\u2019s Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and changed his life: a handful of old, stripped-down cars bouncing across the sand.<\/p>\n<p>It sure would be fun to get behind the wheel of one of those, Meyers thought, if only they weren\u2019t so ugly and didn\u2019t appear so uncomfortable. He built his own solution: a \u201cdune buggy\u201d fashioned out of lightweight fiberglass mounted on four oversized tires with two bug-eyed looking headlights and a blindingly bright paint job.<\/p>\n<p>The result would become both an overnight automotive sensation and one of the talismans of California surf culture, especially when he created a space in the back to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2021\/02\/27\/meyers-manx-dune-buggy-creator-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California\u2019s Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and changed his life: a handful of old, stripped-down cars bouncing across the sand. It sure would be fun to get behind the wheel of one of those, Meyers thought, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,60,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160574,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160573\/revisions\/160574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}