Bruce Meyers Obituary: Bruce Meyers, the quintessential west coast craftsman whose development of the Meyers Manx hill cart in the mid 1960s formed both car and motorsport culture, passed on Friday at 94 years old in his home in Valley Center, California.

Broadly known for his creation that actually gives innumerable fans around the planet “grins for a significant distance”, Meyers was likewise a surfer, mariner, guitar/ukulele player, craftsman, designer and establishing father of the whole rough terrain way of life and industry. Brought into the world on March 12, 1926, he was Inducted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame (ORMHOF) in 1978.

Working in 1964 in his old carport in Newport Beach, California, Meyers initially made a streaming fiberglass body to fit on an old Volkswagen floor skillet. Utilizing a large part of the stock VW drivetrain, suspension and different parts, that first vehicle was at last called a Meyers Manx. In mid-1967 Meyers and pal Ted Mangels drove the vehicle – nicknamed “Old Red” – from La Paz to Tijuana in time five entire hours quicker than past trans-Baja runs done on bikes.