On weekends, the dunes were teeming with home-built contraptions. In the late '50s, an L.A.-based VW dealership and speed shop called EMPI offered the first dune-buggy kit, the Sportster.

This buggy was built from the leftover drivetrain ... of the desert and running a spec racing series with about four home-built concoctions racing wheel to wheel. Maybe something like this is ...

Suddenly all four wheels ran out of dune. They spun, clawing at the air, as the home-built buggy took flight. Then, with a bone-jarring bounce, it became earthbound again. Preble slammed on the ...

To fill the fun gap, at least for now, [James Biggar] built what you can’t buy: an all-electric dune buggy. And lest you think this was a kit build, be assured that the summary video below shows ...

The result is an easier-to-build kit boasting higher quality ... “We’ve always loved how the classic Meyers Manx Buggy drives,” he said. “Knowing that at-home assembly has been a challenge ...

Jeff, their son who built a lot of the buggy, was just as happy to see their $20,000 family project (including the trailer) back home. “The buggy was in good condition,” he said ...

Abilene? Even at age 90, Reaves Armstrong still has the bug to build buggies. Since 1991, the Abilene resident has built hundreds of detailed 19th century horse-drawn wagons in his home workshop ...

“I went home that night ... we’re doing an Amish buggy – seemed natural.” The build and modifications cost around $30,000 and took roughly 700 hours of labour to complete: “Many all ...

The wood workings are built out of nothing more than maple ... It sounds like Modern Buggy really hit a home run with Little Buggy, and by the looks of things, they're just getting warmed up.

Remarkably, the VW chassis upon which the buggy is built was only a year old at the ... that the car was moved to Montana from its original home in Texas in 1971, where it was used for more ...

A group of Belpre High School students were able to help the Ohio Department of Transportation make a specialized piece of ...