What is a Real Manx

[GregR]

The Manx Club (Bruce Meyers) requires the following for authentication of Meyers Manx, Tow'd and SR. Bruce Meyers, the designer, will make the determination in the absence of a BF Meyers ID tag.
From the Meyer's Manx Dune Buggy Club (www.manxclub.com)
Thank you Bruce and Winnie!

What is a real Meyers Manx?

Do you have an original Meyers Manx (tm) ... In order to be entered in the Meyers Manx (tm) Registry, buggy owners need to be able to identify whether or not their buggy is an authentic Meyers Manx (tm). If you suspect that you may have one,... please send the following information in order to complete our registry file.

1. Four pictures of your car
a. Front (close-up) - include the front emblem area.
b. Rear - include the license plate area.
c. Under the fenders (one of the fenders, front to rear) - include the reinforcing tube. This tube must also be present on the other side, but I don't need two pictures. (If your buggy has a serial no. you do not need to take this picture).
d. The back seat area (battery box well and spare tire sump or no sumps if it is a Manx 2).

2. The serial no. - if it has one
a. Meyers Manx - found on the vertical surface of the fiberglass just above the inspection plate behind the front seats.
b. Tow'd or SR - above the pedals under the dash.

Some of the earlier cars did not have a tag with the serial no., although those same cars would have the battery box well and spare tire sump molded into the area behind the front seats. If yours is one of these, a picture of this area is required along with a picture of the reinforcing tubes extending from front to rear under the fenders.

Additional Details of the Original Meyers Manx
The dashboard of the 1st floorpan model is made of ABS plastic surrounded by a steel frame inside the fiberglass hood.
The hood has a small bump on it's nose, measuring 2" wide by 2 1/2" tall. This bump wore a silver and black sticker on the first 150 kits or so into early 1967, at which time the large black and silver plastic emblem covered this bump. Meyers Manx never had any other bumps, air scoops, ridges, furrows, or anything else on their hoods.
Two tubular steel struts may be in place to stiffen the lower edge of the body at either side of the license plate. This continued to the end of 1971.

The 1st floorpan model, produced into the 70's, had stiffening tubes glassed under the fenders from the pedal bulkhead to the engine bulkhead. These were first made of cardboard tubes glassed in and later a few with 2" vacuum cleaner hose glassed in place, but finally a fiberglass shape was tooled, which formed a tube-like structure under both fenders.

The 2nd floorpan model was called the Manx 2. There were a few hundred Manx 2 bodies produced from late 1968 to late 1970. Some of these were apparently produced while Bruce was still with the company. Those kits have serial numbers starting with "A". Some of these kits had the stiffening tubes under the fenders. The Manx 2's produced after Bruce left the country had 4-digit serial numbers and no longer had the reinforcing tubes under the fenders. All Manx 2's are identified by a larger bump on the hood, the omission of the battery box sump and the spare tire well in the rear seat area - they were flat across the seat area, and the hood and dash were molded as one piece.