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Brett Fernau is a self-taught mechanic with a lifetime of experience building and maintaining his own cars. He has been driving his Yellow Dune Buggy nearly every day since he built it in 1999.

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Dreams

What do you get when you take with an old Volkswagen chassis, shorten it, add a fiberglass body, a custom-built engine and transaxle, lights, wheels...
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Distributor vs. Carburetor: Choosing a Leader

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When you press the accelerator pedal on your dune buggy, you open up the butterfly valve inside the carburetor to allow more air into the engine....
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Upcoming Dune Buggy Events

I've found a few upcoming events where you can take your buggy. Some of them are a bit of a drive, but in my experience these dune buggy weekends are...
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Breakfast with the Dual Sport Buggy group

I had a great time with the Orange County based, Dual Sport Buggy group on Saturday morning. I was browsing the Manx Club forums late Friday night...
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Orange County/Southern California Dune Buggy Breakfast

I just found out about a dune buggy meet-up in the City of Orange, California on September 26, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. The meeting place is the Katella...
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The Manx Club Tours Lake Tahoe

According to reports from the members who were there, the Manx Club's Lake Tahoe weekend was great fun. Sixty-eight buggies and their owners were...
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How does it feel to drive a car you built yourself?

As we've discussed, there are three ways to acquire a dune buggy. You can buy a finished car, you can buy all the parts and pay someone else to build...
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Tools of the Trade.

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A few of the wrenches in the metric drawer of my tool box If you are going to build your own car, you are going to need tools and lots of them. The...
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So, what year is your Dune Buggy?

Nearly every time I get in my dune buggy and drive somewhere, someone will give me a honk and a wave while driving along, or someone will walk up to...
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You Dune Buggy deserves it's own shop manual!

One of the things you should do as you build your dune buggy, is create a running record of what you have done. You should makes notes of what...
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