The Meyers Manx has joined the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe as the second vehicle on the Historic Vehicle Association’s (HVA) National Historic Vehicle Register and Historic American Engineering Record to be permanently archived in the Library of Congress. The first Manx, known as “Old Red” and constructed in Newport Beach, California, in 1964 by Bruce Meyers, is the first fiberglass dune buggy, and was honored on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., May 3-4. Its fun, lightweight design sparked an American interest in beach culture and off-road racing, and is one of the most copied designs in automotive history, with Meyers producing 7,000 examples himself and another quarter million being built worldwide.
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