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.
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.
