The Baja Bug was never a factory model, you had to make your own. First prize as a starter kit was a rare Karmann Beetle convertible; failing that, you would cut the roof off a standard Beetle and ...

Volkswagen is inextricably linked with the Baja 1000. Having started as a motorcycle race, Bruce Meyers entered a Meyers Manx, a dune buggy kit based on the Beetle, to compete in what was then ...

The Baja Beetle, a sand dune-hopping off-roader cut from the mild-mannered German car, and now enjoying cult status, appears to have happened on its own in the 1960s.

Yes, technically, the Baja Beetle came around in the late sixties (1968-1969), but that didn’t stop enthusiasts from retrofitting their previous model-year examples to the famous off-road looks ...