Manx ,produced or at least made one or so Dune Buggies with turbocharged Corvair engines ,performance was rather good .
Q: Ever hear of the "Purple Potato Chip " ?
A: Nope. What’s that?
Obviously, it is a potato chip made from purple potatoes!
According to Bruce, he only sold bodies, never cars. He was a fiberglass molder who still specialized in surfboards.
Many people did, however, mount Corvair engines to them, and some even mounted Porsche engines.
ever heard of the loxley lozenge?
I have now…
Well he had one that would start at the bottom of a sand dune with the front wheels in the air and somehow he could turn and come back down with the front wheels in the air ,I read this in a hotrod journal that went back to the late 60s or very early seventies ,perhaps it was a one off for his personal use FWIW .