When he was growing up, Ryan Pursell's grandfather usually had one or two sand-rail vehicles that were familiar to the 200 or so people living in Stinesville. "I have wanted one since I was a kid," ...

'72 VW-based Sand Rail. It's effectively a 1.3-litre, single port, non-doghouse flat-four beetle engine and gearbox bolted into the back end of a standard '72 VW Beetle saloon chassis with a dirty ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, when junkyards were filled with crashed VW Beetles, countless do-it-yourselfers built their own dune buggies. Some bought kits like the Meyers Manx, while others simply ...

Over the mile-long hood of a 1969 Dodge Polara, I watched various lifted 4x4 trucks spit sand as they paid their entrance fee at the ranger booth and powered onto the beach. "Am I going to get stuck?" ...