Funko Hustler Dune Buggy. (Like the Revell Buggy in the Recent Bronco/Buggy Kit)

[stavanzer]

 

 

 

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/11/i-think-this-is-class-11-funko-hustler.html

 

[espo]

Back in the '60's there was a company that sold an off-road vehicle that looked very much the same. They marketed it under the name "Toad".  

[Ace-Garageguy]

4 hours ago, espo said:

Back in the '60's there was a company that sold an off-road vehicle that looked very much the same. They marketed it under the name "Toad".  

Actually, it was Meyers (who made the Manx etc.) and as it wasn't street legal, they called it Tow'd...a play on words.

There were also lotsa other tube-frame sand buggy manufacturers.

 Below are two from Chenowth.

 

Edited November 15, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

There's also a military "Scorpion" buggy from Chenowth...

Edited November 15, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy

[espo]

21 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Actually, it was Meyers (who made the Manx etc.) and as it wasn't street legal, they called it Tow'd...a play on words.

There were also lotsa other tube-frame sand buggy manufacturers.

 Below are two from Chenowth.

 

Thanks for reminding me of the correct name, Tow'd.  One of the guys I rode dirt bikes with at the time bought one. We were all living in the San Bernardino Mountain area in southern California, and he would drive this thing often. The traffic laws at the time there were only loosely enforced if at all. 

[keyser]

AMT did great kit of the Tow’d. 

[PatW]

My first one of these was from Scale Equipment.

[stavanzer]

On 1/5/2023 at 2:21 PM, PatW said:

My first one of these was from Scale Equipment.

I think That the Scale Equip kit was a resin Re-pop of the Revell Buggy.

[PatW]

3 hours ago, stavanzer said:

I think That the Scale Equip kit was a resin Re-pop of the Revell Buggy.

Well it was resin, for sure. Thanks Alan.