If you didn’t have a dune buggy or a van with outrageously flared arches and an eye-hurting paint job you were nothing in those days — or at least that’s what those of us who were too young ...

Made of thick fiberglass, with four-spoke mags and racing slicks ... and was then summarily ushered out of – the Volkswagen dune buggy conversion market. Did Bruce Meyers build a kids' bed?

Dune buggy driver and land access advocate Evelyn ... “She can be seen driving Betsy in the 1961 Hot Rod magazine, although she is never mentioned.” She was mentioned in subsequent issues ...