I love these!!!

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There are a few around wentzville...

I like them bcuz they are so old school... I thought the video/story was great, what with his boat building background...

In 1962, Honda , before there was a Baja 1000, wanted to prove how durable their bikes were, and picked Dave Ekins and Bill Robertson to run it. In 1967 Bruce Meyers decided to do the same thing, pre running the course south, and turning around and running back to TJ. IN OLD RED!!!! They broke the bikes record by more than 5 hours. A Manx won the very first Baja 1000 the same year, running the course south to La Paz.



As far as I know, Manx and Funco are the only VW powered cars that ever beat the bikes, and the Funco was a full tube frame offroad racer. After that, Stroppe prepared Broncos ruled the place. It wasn't until 1975 that the bikes started dominating.