This buggy was bought for my Sister and Sister in law. They claimed to be getting tired of standing around in the dunes and wanted their own dunebuggy. The picture was taken 15 minutes after we got the complete and running buggy home the day it was purchased. We needed to get some things fixed before it would be duneworthy. Mainly, the wiring, brakes and engine. What a mess.

We reringed,and gasketed the engine along with setting the crankshaft endplay.

Rear seat area, Just a battery box, no tire well.

We just finished wetsanding and buffing the buggy. It gave it a little more shine for it's first trip to Silver Lake.

Starting the disassembly to rebuild the floorpan. We started the pan rebuild the second Winter that we had the buggy.

The disassembly of the buggy for the floorpan rebuild has begun.
I never did like the spyder web paint on the inside of the body.

My brother cleaning up the tunnel flange after removing the passenger side pan half.

Taking the rusty old pedal assembly out of the tunnel.

New pan halves installed. Nothing but a little finish welding to do.

Front view with the pan halves installed.

New pan halves installed,we are now installing the 1" x 1 1/2" rectangular tubing around the perimeter of the pan. It works real well as a base for body flange. We used 1" square tubing across the front and rear of the body mounting area.

Freshly painted parts ready for installation.

Painted trans and front beam. Ready for installation.

Maria doing her part on her buggy. Installing the axle boots. Oh what fun.

She did a fine job on the installation too.

Side view of the powdercoated pan. The carpet is installed and the adjustable seat rails are bolted in. You can also see the 1"x 1 1/2" rectangular reinforcing tubing welded around the perimeter of the pan.

Front view of the rolling chassis. Ready to bolt in the seats and install the body.

Rear view of the pan with the trans horn reinforcements installed. The top of the reinforcement tubing will bolt to the kicker legs of the rollbar and the bottom is mounted with flanges, so they can be removed when the trans needs to be worked on.

Side view of the finished pan, ready for the body.

Seats installed ready for the body.

Body sitting on the newly restored pan.

The girls buggy sitting out in the dunes.

It looks right at home sitting in the dunes.

It doesn't look to bad with it's new paddle tires.
During the buggys evolution I built a fairly stout 1915 for it, we installed a TransForm trans with close 3rd and 4th which made it a quite capable duner. It still wasn't quite as pretty as the girls wanted, so we took the engine,trans, wheels & tires, along with the front beam off the buggy and sold the rest. Then we used the parts and the money along with a considerable amount of extra money to build the red Berrien Buggy Nostalgia in the next frame.

This is what we ended up with.