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calebmelvin
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calebmelvin
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calebmelvin
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jsturtlebuggy
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 Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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Where did you find the pictures of Tom & Donna's Green Manx?
Tom built it when he got back from Vietnam. He still has the original Gates tires in the back. All original from when he first built it.
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calebmelvin
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| Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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| jsturtlebuggy wrote: |
Where did you find the pictures of Tom & Donna's Green Manx?
Tom built it when he got back from Vietnam. He still has the original Gates tires in the back. All original from when he first built it. |
You know, I don't remember! I have been collecting period photos for a while so I must have come across it somewhere. I love that buggy!
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squareweave
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:19 am Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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| jsturtlebuggy wrote: |
Where did you find the pictures of Tom & Donna's Green Manx?
Tom built it when he got back from Vietnam. He still has the original Gates tires in the back. All original from when he first built it. |
Is Tom on this site? If so what is his username or what does the car look like now? |
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jsturtlebuggy
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:12 am Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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I don't think Tom visit this site. Buggy looks the same except for different seat covers.
Geoff from Canada built one that looks very similar looking. I seen it to in person when he brought it to Southern California several years ago.
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calebmelvin
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calebmelvin
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dustymojave
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 6:46 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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Now how many of the readers of this are going to know that's Art Linkletter in the driver's seat or who in the world he was? That's the regular crew from his show. I wonder if this Manx was used to run around his development in Pagosa Springs CO. Not too good in the winter. But great for teh summer there.
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jsturtlebuggy
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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That sure looks like Lawrence Welk and his group in the Meyers Manx buggy.
I have seen the picture before.
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dustymojave
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| Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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Derp... 
Old age Senior moment. Wrong old TV Fart. Old to ME, that is!
Wrong resort owner too. Welk's company has a chain of resorts from Temecula, CA. to Branson, MO, to Lake Tahoe, to Cabo San Lucas.
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calebmelvin
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:55 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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Derp...
Old age Senior moment. Wrong old TV Fart. Old to ME, that is!
Wrong resort owner too. Welk's company has a chain of resorts from Temecula, CA. to Branson, MO, to Lake Tahoe, to Cabo San Lucas. |
Well to make you feel better I had no idea who either of those people were!
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calebmelvin
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dustymojave
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:04 am Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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| dustymojave wrote: |
Derp...
Old age Senior moment. Wrong old TV Fart. Old to ME, that is!
Wrong resort owner too. Welk's company has a chain of resorts from Temecula, CA. to Branson, MO, to Lake Tahoe, to Cabo San Lucas. |
Well to make you feel better I had no idea who either of those people were! |
LOL 
Ya gotta be pushin' 60 to have a clue. So I'm sure that passes over a large percentage of the population around here. Neither was known even then for any interest in dune buggies or motorsports at all. But then, the Manx isn't well over 50 years of age.
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hillmotorsports
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 4:05 am Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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Derp...
Old age Senior moment. Wrong old TV Fart. Old to ME, that is!
Wrong resort owner too. Welk's company has a chain of resorts from Temecula, CA. to Branson, MO, to Lake Tahoe, to Cabo San Lucas. |
Well to make you feel better I had no idea who either of those people were! |
Kids say the darndest things!😁
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calebmelvin
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: Vintage/contemporary nostalgic built dunebuggy pictures |
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This was taken at a little Beach between Corona Delmar and Laguna Beach.
It had a small mobile home community on it then and now it's all beach only.
That was a early yellow pan car.
That was the very early stage of the first pan car.
I was told that car wasn't really complete yet but had the opportunity then with photographer at that time.
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