# @meyersmanx on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C4dir8sISAN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11509832-meyersmanx-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-03-13T16:44:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Meyers Manx (@MeyersManx) — https://gondola.cc/MeyersManx

## Caption

Cliff Cooper, founder of orangeamplifiers, on producing Manxes at the height of buggy culture in the UK — 

“Beach buggies were very much the ‘in thing’ in London around 1970. The idea originated in America, where they’re known as ‘Dune Buggies’. They were invented in the 1960s by a Californian boat builder named Bruce Meyers, who had pioneered the use of fibreglass for vessels. Meyers then had the idea of using the material to build a lightweight off-road car based on a Volkswagen chassis, and the Dune Buggy was born. I read about this at the time, and I was intrigued. It was a nice coincidence that the colour of the first dune buggy Bruce designed and began marketing in the mid-1960s – the ‘Meyers Manx’ – was a deep orange colour.

The Orange Beach Buggy soon became a well known sight around London.”

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📷: orangeamplifiers

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