interesting vehicles that showed up on Green Acres

That's Meyers Tow'd! After the Manx, Bruce made this which wasn't street legal, and didn't need to be, because it was for off roading

 

and this... was the Happy Days hot rod!  A couple years before it was on Happy Days

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-fonz-didnt-have-jalopy-it-was-ralphs.html

https://www.metv.com/lists/10-cool-classic-vehicles-from-green-acres

Bruce Meyers, has moved on, and the world is no damn good without him. 1926-2021

 He was a war hero. After his ship, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, was hit by two kamikazes off Okinawa, and everybody had to jump into the Pacific to avoid the flames, Meyers the surfer gave his life jacket to a sailor who didn’t have one, then he towed an injured pilot through flaming oil slicks for two hours.

He did something few men have ever done, he invented a type of vehicle. The Dune buggy was a concept before him, but there was no set look or design, they were doodle bugs of any shade tree mechanics design... then Bruce Meyers set the fundamental look and style in pop culture, and it was copied and changed a bit here and there by others that looked to cash in on the newest thing, but a Meyers Manx is a true car of beautiful proportions and looks. 

To say Bruce Meyers was a renaissance man would be to limit him. Yes, he was trained in fine arts at Chouinard Art Institute, with a specialty in life drawing, but unlike the traditional renaissance man, Bruce surfed, raced in the Baja 1000, and sailed to Tahiti on a trading schooner.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/people/a35567136/bruce-meyers-obit/

https://racer.com/2021/02/21/insight-finding-the-finish-line-with-bruce-meyers/

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39356/farewell-to-bruce-meyers-off-road-pioneer-and-father-of-the-meyers-manx-dune-buggy

The youngest of five children, Bruce Franklin Meyers was born March 12, 1926, on his family’s dining room table in Los Angeles. His father, a businessman and riding mechanic, was friends with Henry Ford, who hired him to set up Ford dealerships across the country. His mother was a song plugger, a singer hired to promote new music for department stores or music publishers.

Meyers spent much of his childhood on beaches in and around Los Angeles, becoming a lifeguard after one of his brothers drowned. He dropped out of high school to join the Merchant Marine and later enlisted in the Navy

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/bruce-meyers-creator-of-the-first-fiberglass-dune-buggy-dies-at-94

racing Vettes, Bruce Meyers Le Mans winners

Full gallery on the old Corvette from when it was at the Beverly Hills Concours at Graystone Mansion http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/05/one-of-3-corvettes-of-briggs.html

The Bruce Meyers built fiberglass kids bed shaped like a McLaren Can Am race car

Made of thick fiberglass, with four-spoke mags and racing slicks, it looked like a McLaren M6 Can-Am racer – wide, voluptuous, and impossibly low. But in place of niceties like the front intake, cockpit, and engine, it had a broad cutout the size and shape of a coffin. Also, it unbolted in the middle lengthwise. Workers hauled it into the house, one piece at a time

Meyers decided to try making furniture. "I did another thing called the Night Racer," he says, "a little bed that looks like a McLaren racecar."

When asked the origin story on this outlier item, Meyers said that, "It just popped up as an idea. I sold some of them for a while – I doubt that we made over one or two hundred – but it didn't save the company.

https://www.autoblog.com/2015/07/17/bruce-meyers-racecar-bed-feature/#slide-3550780

Bruce Meyers is more than just the inventor of the Manx, of course. He grew up in the Great Depression. His mother was the inspiration for the song, “Five-foot-two, Eyes of Blue…” His father was a riding mechanic at Indy and later a businessman who was wiped out by the crash of the stock market.

Meyers himself went from surfer to avid sailor. When the war came, he wound up as a gunner on the aircraft carrier Bunker Hill. After that ship was hit by two kamikazes, he found himself floating in the same blue Pacific in which he used to frolic as a youth, except that now it was on fire. Since he had spent a good part of his life in the ocean already and was pretty comfortable there, he willingly gave his life jacket to a panicked sailor and hauled a wounded officer through patches of burning oil to safety. So add war hero to his resume.

He spent a postwar stint in the South Seas, living in Tahiti and running a trading post on a coral atoll. When he returned home, he helped pioneer the use of fiberglass to shape sailboats for Cal Yachts and surfboards. Then he set the record for the fastest trip from Tijuana to La Paz in his Manx

http://autoweek.com/article/car-life/bruce-meyers-maker-meyers-manx-turns-90
http://www.automobilemag.com/news/bruce-meyers-dune-buggy-fever-father/

Bruce Meyer and his 63 Bizzarrini Grifo, the Le Mans winner

https://petrolicious.com/films/1965-bizzarrini-a3c-a-le-mans-underdog-story

Happy Birthday Bruce Meyers!

http://www.meyersmanx.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Meyers-Manx/385454094823475?sk=timeline

Petrolicious.com makes another terrific video, this one is Bruce Meyer and his 250 Ferrari, the winningest Ferrari ever.

12 cyilnders, only 3 total liters... a 1/4 of a liter per cyclinder. Seems to me that is a cup. Maybe not much torque, but it probably spins pretty quick up to redline

Found on what will no doubt be the premiere car enthusiast site, Petrolicious http://www.petrolicious.com/this-is-the-winningest-ferrari-ever