Bush riding US Border Patrol dune buggyР”В«ecause of the advantages a buggy can afford on some terrain, they are also used by the military. These types of dune buggies are known as 'clones'. Many other companies worldwide have been inspired by the Manx, making similar bodies and kits. Bruce Meyers designed his fiberglass bodies as a 'kit-car', using the Volkswagen Beetle chassis. The original fiberglass dune buggy was the 1964 ' Meyers Manx' built by Bruce Meyers. While early dune buggy conversions were left with no body, or featured custom bodies of sheet metal (such as the EMPI Sportsters and similar buggies), glass-reinforced plastic (fiberglass) bodies, developed in the 1960s, have become the standard image of the modern buggy, and come in many shapes and sizes. The model is nicknamed Bug, lending partial inspiration to the term 'buggy.' The Beetle platform chassis was used because the rear engine layout improves traction, the air-cooled engine avoids the complexities and failure points associated with a water-cooled engine, the front suspension was considered cheap and robust and the spare parts - and donor vehicles themselves - were cheap and readily available.

Dune buggies are typically created by modifying an existing road vehicle, while sandrails are built from the ground up as a custom vehicle.Р”Р‡or dune buggies built on the chassis of an existing vehicle, the Volkswagen Beetle has been most commonly used as the basis for the buggy, though conversions were made from other cars (such as the Corvair and Renault Dauphine).

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