Old Car Trivia #27

[dwasson]

Name this car. Why is it important?

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/files/1/1/4/1/1033.jpg

[BAD MERC]

It was called 'Marauder' if I remember correctly. Not that I am an old-timer. I just remember one when I did a search on eBay. The one I saw was glitter green with a white canvas top.

[fastblackmerc]

I thought it was a 'Myers Manx"?

[Bluerauder]

Name this car. Why is it important?
I thought that it was just known as a "Dune Buggy". This design probably led to the implementation of front and side impact standards. :D

[dwasson]

I thought it was a 'Myers Manx"?

You're right. Why is the Meyers Manx important?

[TooManyFords]

Was it the first car to have a TV show named after it? MANX?

:)

[Joe Walsh]

I thought that it was just known as a "Dune Buggy". This design probably led to the implementation of front and side impact standards. :D

Wait a minute Charlie!!

That thing looks perfectly safe to me....I'm sure that all occupants would fair well when hit by an oblivious, cell phone talkin', make-up applying driver in a 6800 lb Escalade!
;)

BTW: If I recall correctly, that nice chrome roll bar (2 point mount) would snap and come down on your lower extremities like a huge mouse trap.

[Rob1559]

First Kit for the Beetle platform.

[Bluerauder]

That thing looks perfectly safe to me....I'm sure that all occupants would fair well when hit by an oblivious, cell phone talkin', make-up applying driver in a 6800 lb Escalade!
;)
For additional structural support and integrity it had 2" glassed in cardboard tubes. Later models had 2" vacuum cleaner hoses that were glassed in. :rolleyes:

[dwasson]

First Kit for the Beetle platform.

Yep, this was the first fiberglass, dune buggy kit. Meyers never did make much money from the Manx. It was knocked off so easily that he couldn't sue everybody.