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EMPI is a company that produces aftermarket performance parts for various air-cooled Volkswagens.EMPI was not one of the brands that led to the demise of B. F. Meyers & Co., the company that produced the Meyers Manx (one of the first air-cooled Volkswagen based buggies).
Baja Bugs originated in Southern California in the late 1960s as an inexpensive answer to the successful Volkswagen-based dune buggies of the mid-1960s, especially the Meyers Manx. [2] The building of the first Baja Bug is generally credited to Gary Emory (now of Parts Obsolete), circa 1968. [3]
Dune Buggy Handbook. pp. 136–137. Includes detailed technical specs, timeline, and photos. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-2312, "1964 Meyers Manx, Valley Center, San Diego County, CA", 30 photos, 4 color transparencies, 1 measured drawing, 23 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
In 1964 Goodwin and partner John Hebler established the Fiberfab Company in Palo Alto, California. [4] The company started building street rod parts and body panels for Corvettes, Mustangs, and Jaguars before moving on to complete bodies and kit cars. Noel Johnson was a Fiberfab employee who later became part owner of the company. [4]
VW buggies are created. At first they resembled the American Bugetta. The basis is a shortened chassis from the VW Beetle. Hussein I of Jordan ordered four vehicles and Rocket Wheel Industries of California ordered 75 kits. The price of £160 for a kit in the early 1970s was higher than comparable offers. Since 1995, the chassis have been ...
By the late 1980s, the Cal-Style VW influence spread throughout Southern California and the world. A Cal-Style VW was an all original VW typically painted in factory colors (two-tones are frowned on, unless original from the factory) that was lowered all the way around and kept all the chrome trim, bumpers, and subtle chrome lowrider influenced ...
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