METALFLAKE MANIA

With its design harking back to 1964, the Meyers Manx buggy is very much a product of its era. The latter celebrated the custom car culture with some wild vehicles, thanks to American customisers/artists such as Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth. He conceived cars from scratch out of fiberglass (the same versatile material adopted by Bruce Meyers), which had become commonly used to make replacement body panels. Custom car builders also showed less boundaries when it came to choosing colours, often bold if not peculiar. Meyers offered a wide palette of hues for his Manx, too, and experimented with metalflakes as years passed.

In a way, Manx-style buggies scream out for loud paint jobs, be it a bright colour and/or heavy