Now Boarding · The Manx Airways Collection
Manx Airways · Behind the scenes
Meyers Manx took to the air. A first look at the Airways collection, shot on board the Albatross.
Collaborations
The Manx started with one Californian engineer, artist, boat builder and surfer, Bruce F. Meyers. Sixty years later, we're still taking the soul of 'Old Red' along for the ride.
Engineer, artist, boat builder and surfer Bruce F. Meyers builds the first Manx. "Old Red" becomes the prototype for kits that bolt onto a shortened VW Beetle chassis.
Bruce and Ted Mangels take Old Red down the Baja peninsula: 950 miles of rocks, sand, dry lake beds and mountain passes, more than five hours faster than the motorcycle record.
Less than a week later the Manx lands on the April cover of Car and Driver. Around 350 orders arrive almost overnight.
Steve McQueen commissions a custom Manx, modified to his own design, and drives it in The Thomas Crown Affair.
Bruce's buggy craze spreads around the world. And beyond it.
Metal flake paint, the Mk II, the street-going SR, the Tow'd and Tow'dster, and the original Resorter for the jet-age resort scene.
Well into his 70s, Bruce keeps designing, finally building ideas he'd been sitting on since the seventies: the Manxter 2+2 and Manxter DualSport.
Back to the short wheelbase. The Kick-Out Manx Traditional and S.S. update the original shape for a new era.
Lifelong enthusiast Phillip Sarofim and designer Freeman Thomas carry Bruce's spirit into the all-electric Manx 2.0.
A modern take on the 1970s Resorter, built so families can adventure right through their own neighborhoods.
Sixty years of smile machines. Where you take yours is up to you.
