This page features lavish photos and personal reminisces from a guy whose father built a series of amazing dunebuggies in the fifties, sixties and seventies; the descriptions of the buggies and the fine days at the beach they engendered are really charming and lovely.
Pop took the frame rails from his earlier dune buggy to make the one above, which used his first overhead valve engine, a Ford 352 Police Interceptor. This was the first buggy of ours to use grooved implement tires and dual rear wheels. I think Don Deupser did the welding on this one.
We are on top of “Big Hill,” and the dune buggy in the background is where we camped and barbequed all the time. My brother Fred is on the left, I’m in the middle, and Pop is on the right. Note the polished aluminum Mickey Thompson valve covers. These have stayed with all the Ford powered dune buggies and cars in the family since this photo was taken in 1966-67. The gold colored ignition coil is on my pickup today, and the valve covers were on my Fairlane, and are now on the rebuilt dune buggy shown on more of my dune buggy pages.
(via Hooptyrides)