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A DUNE-RIPPIN’ ORIGINAL ART SERIES CLASSIC: AMT’s 1/25 scale Meyers Manx is a great project for any experienced modeler who likes custom dune rides. Add it to your collection today!
BIG FUN AND LOADED WITH GOODIES: The Meyers Manx kit is another fun classic from AMT! Fully paintable, it features a full sheet of colorful water-slide decal options. Build it 1 of 3 ways: off road racer, street Manx or dune buggy with many options including “street” exhaust system, custom mag wheels, removable hardtop, optional “surrey” top, a modified VW engine with twin carbs and more! Collectible art print of the original box top painting included. Wrapped up nicely in vintage-styled packaging!
QUICK SPECS: 1/25 Scale, 120+ Parts, 5 Inches long once assembled. Parts molded in white, clear, transparent orange and transparent red with black vinyl tires. Some parts are chrome plated. Plastic model kit paint and cement required. Skill Level 2.
AMT MEYERS MANX DUNE BUGGY - ORIGINAL ART 1:25 SCALE MODEL KIT
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The Meyers Manx dune buggy is a small recreationally-oriented automobile, designed initially for desert racing by Californian engineer, artist, boat builder and surfer Bruce F. Meyers.[1] It was produced by his Fountain Valley, California company, B. F. Meyers & Co. from 1964 to 1971, in the form of car kits applied to shortened chassis of Volkswagen Beetles.[2]: 120 [3] The car line dominated dune racing in its time, breaking records immediately, and was eventually also released in street-oriented models, until the company's demise due to tax problems after Meyers's departure.[2]: 118-123 New vehicles inspired by the original Manx buggy have been produced by Meyers's re-founded operation, Meyers Manx, Inc., since 2000.[3] The name and cat logo of the brand derives from the Manx cat, by virtue of the tailless breed's and the shortened vehicle's truncated "stubbiness".
The commercially manufactured Meyers Manx Mk I featured an open-wheeled fiberglass bodyshell, coupled with the Volkswagen Beetle H4 flat-four engine (1.2 L, 1.3 L, 1.5 L and 1.6 L, in different models) and a modified, RR-layout Beetle frame. It is a small car, with a wheelbase 14¼ inches (36.2 cm) shorter than a Beetle automobile for lightness and better maneuverability. For this reason, the car is capable of very quick acceleration and good off-road performance, despite not being four-wheel drive. The usually street-legal car redefined and filled a recreational and competitive niche that had been essentially invented by the first civilian Jeep in 1945, and which was later to be overtaken by straddle-ridden, motorcycle-based all-terrain vehicles (introduced in 1970) and newer, small and sporty (but usually four-wheel-drive), off-road automobiles.
The commercial Meyers Manx received widespread recognition when it defeated motorcycles, trucks and other cars to win the inaugural 1967 Mexican 1000 race (the predecessor of the Baja 1000). It crossed automotive press genre lines, being selected as the cover story in the August 1966 issue of Hot Rod magazine.
Approximately 6,000 of the original Meyers Manx dune buggies were produced, but when the design became popular many copies (estimated at a quarter of a million worldwide) were made by other companies. Although already patented, Meyers & Co. lost in court to the copiers, the judge rescinding his patent as unpatentable, opening the floodgates to the industry Meyers started.[citation needed] Since then, numerous vehicles of the general "dune buggy" or "beach buggy" body.
B. F. Meyers & Co. also produced other Beetle-based vehicles, including the May 1970 Car & Driver magazine cover sporty Manx SR variant (street roadsters, borrowing some design ideas from the Porsche 914), the Meyers Tow'd (sometimes referred to as the "Manx Tow'd", a non-street-legal racing vehicle designed to be towed to the desert or beach), the Meyers Tow'dster (a street-legal hybrid of the two[2]: 123 ), and Meyers Resorter a.k.a. Meyers Turista (a small recreational or "resort" vehicle inspired by touring motorcycles). The Manx SR2 was a modified SR that was only produced by later manufacturers including Karma Coachworks, Heartland Motors and Manx Motors of MD. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Rest in Peace Bruce Meyers. He was a very good friend of mine and left an enduring legacy on car culture.
Speed buggy or the Bugaloos car or Wonder Bug From Sid and Marty Croft those would be 😎 options too Have fun Chris as always
Such a sweet looking dune buggy - would love to drive that.
Yeah! Loved this one all the way back to original issue! Couple of kit-bash "tweeks" = surf boards and/or roof rack from other recent reissues of Ford van or Chevelle wagon. 'Nother thought is to use "service spotlights" from the tow-truck boom from '34 Ford Pickup - as replacement for "bug" headlamps. May be tow-bar for "flat-towing behind either van or wagon? Most of all - 1:1 "buggy" was ALL about having fun - so this kit-build should be too! [For the more adventurous "bashers" maybe Corvair or Porsche engine swap - or serious "swapping with speed parts from Revell "Baja Bug"/"Empi Inch-Pincher...]
Very neat model kit. You made the build look relatively easy. Nice color choices. Thanks for sharing.
This was an excellent build and presentation Chris. I really like your color choices, great job!!
Love that. Always wanted a real one back in the early 70's Another awesome video.Thx
Really like this, if i had one it would be metal flake green
I'm 300 Miles away from my workbench this days, so I'm havin fun wiewing all of your model car videos. Thanks a lot for sharing those good moments
Wow the memories come back with that one thanks for sharing ,you rock
She cam out really cool.
Steve McQueen had a manx and he took Faye Dunaway on the beach tearing up the sand in "The Thomas Crown Affair." His had the corsair v6 in it and it was hopped up. My former boss let me drive his corvair powered manx, and it was a fun car.
I am getting one of these but might get the AMT parts pack with the corvair engine done in chrome!
Nice video !!! Great seeing fresh new ideas on building model cars !!!
Very nice mate 👍
Thanks for the idea. The idea you gave me was to get the Coke Bug, that you did, and put those decals on this. Get the Bronco half cab and put on Coke Decals on that as well and put this on the trailer behind the Bronco half cab. Along with getting a couple Coke models, that have the four cases of Coke, and putting them all in the back of the Bronco.
Speed Buggy, rooma-zoom-zoom! Or something like that, haha! You remember Speedy? That's the first thing I thought of when I saw that Meyers Manx kit! Good job bud! Hell Speedy came out about 73' or so, I think it only ran One season. Another Scooby spinoff!
nice neat trick on tire sanding !!!
Love these buggies! Actually saw a Beetle with the rat rod treatment today.
Excited to see this one I love these manx’s
Looks like a fun build!!
Stunning build! I love your paint job on the car, it's my favorite color for model cars
Driver in the box art: "OH THIS IS GONNA HURT!!"
Want to buy that bug, sadly guessing will be waiting 3-6 months before it arrives in Australia. Will probably be $65-$75 australian to buy, will still be buying it!
Wow Chris! That's a neat little buggy! Love that Key Lime!
As always Chris, great video and build, thanks for sharing
You have a great eye for colors.
Another enjoyable build video. Thanks Chris, it's a cool little car.
I remember the cartoon go speed buggy go. I could always to be the speed buggy from the
cartoon go speed buggy go.
I think you are thinking of Speed Racer.
Yours came out great. I did the Elvis version last year and it seemed like everything in that kit was a struggle to get fitted correctly. Maybe mine was from a more worn out mold. 🤷♂️
When gluing chome uncover base plastic underneath.
Beautiful! This kit has it all!l
Cool always cool stuff always thanks 😎 👌 👍
Cool little Manx. I was in SoCal in the 60's and there were several running around. The "real" stinger exhausts back then went from low diagonally upward and were much longer than this kit's pipes. A friend of mine walked behind a Bug at night in a parking lot and tripped over the stinger and hit the pavement. It was everything we all could do to keep him from bashing the crap out of that VW. Oh well!
Ok - I guess that's why most of the buggies I see have the exhaust pointing vertically!
@@davidhinkson8856 Certainly safer, for sure. Here's a vid of one similar to my story. czcams.com/video/HqxVasg1TbQ/video.html
Hey Chris - I am your flyin' blind "viewer - lime is perfect choice - along with just about any other "bright" color - except possibly pink - aas these fiberglas bodies moulded in color rather than being painted in 1:1 guize. Hey Round2 - how's about repopping the very rare "companion" kit = Meyers "Toad" aka "Toadster" - which I believe has never been reissued since c. 1968 or thereabouts?
Cool little build! Thanks for sharing that. In person do the seats look out of scale?
Really nice work Chris stay safe
Looks great.
Very nice 👍!! Keep up the great work.
Nice Build! I like the color that you chose for the body. Is it just me? Or, do those headlights look a little bit out of scale? To me they actually look to big for the car... Maybe, I just need to get the eyes checked. Anyways, keep up the great work!
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Hey Chris looks like you swiped a ash tray from Ramada inn 😆 good job on the dune buggy
I forgot who said it but they said the baby oil will clean up the cloudiness on glass.
This build did NOT bug me at all - I liked it!!! I liked it a LOT.
So cool, I ordered one.
Thanks for another fun kit, Chris.
Great job just curious what scale it is Looks smaller on video
Nine times out of ten, or probably more, if you are dealing with an AMT tooling, the subject is in 1/25. Which makes a subject like this look really small.
Do you sell any of the cars you build?
Chicago Tony saying hi. You recommend testers liquid cemet to me weeks ago. Stuff works great thank you. Ps whitch Mod Podge do you use to glue in the clear window glass?
He uses super gloss, but you can get away with regular mod podge.
I'd love to see a 1/24th scale Chenoweth Fast Attack Vehicle/ Desert Patrol Vehicle. this would be a great starting point for sure with the VeeDub pan.
Hey Chris , great video as always but as the CEO of Ramada Inn could you kindly return our ashtray!!
Don't you love those little dollar store tunes of super-glue? Opn it, use it, and when the tip starts to get gummy, toss it away and open a fresh one. And I use those cheap by the hundred pipettes for applying instant cure, too.
FYI guys: Yesterday I was digging through some boxes and came across my container of original "Future" branded floor polish. It is about 20 years old and in the exact same 27-ounce bottle and blue cap/nozzle as the Pledge item in this video. My Pledge is about 6 months old. Put side-to-side, the Future has definitely yellowed over the years. The question becomes, how would that effect use on models? Well, at some time here I'll apply some of each on a spare windshield or clear acetate and see what I see. Maybe try some Future on a painted surface and see if that skews the color. Since the thickness would be much less than that in the bottle, maybe...
I suppose if the old stuff doesn't cut it, I can use it as... (drum roll)... floor polish.
There have been both sides of the argument (as to whether or not floor polish turns yellow over time) here on the internet. Some builders say "yes" and others
say "no". Personally, I like to use Testor's Wet Look Lacquer, but some will argue that it turns yellow over time as well. I guess it just comes down to what you
prefer and what seems to work best for you and your builds. I have also tried various clear sprays in the rattle cans - - hard to make a definite assessment.
I'm assuming this VW lump was sporting some sort or dual downdraft carbs? Mikuni/ Weber/ Dellorto's? What a great kit from a golden era of hot rodding and tinkering
I wish they would come out with the PEPSI MUG BUG. Battery went under the seat.
I built this 40 years ago lol
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