While Bruce Meyers is best known for his landmark Manx beach buggy, he also designed a road car, beginning with the SR in 1970. The cars were largely provided in kit form, though a few were built by Meyers himself. The body was made of 13 panels around a Volkswagen Beetle chassis, though power could be sourced from a Corvair, Porsche, or VW itself. When Meyers’ company filed for bankruptcy in 1971, the molds for the SR were sold to Karma Coachworks, which modified the car to improve it; subsequently, the cars were christened “SR2”, denoting the second version of the “street roadster”. Production estimates vary from 200 to 400. Here on eBay is an SR2, looking for an opening bid of $10,000. Given the seller’s verbiage, I think we can consider his $14,500 buy-it-now the minimum he’ll accept for the car. It’s located in Pittsville, Maryland.
No photos of the engine are supplied, but it’s back here somewhere. We’re told that it’s a 1600 cc VW flat-four, bored out to 1750 ccs and augmented with an oil cooler, larger oil pan, electronic ignition, and an alternator in place of the generator. The car is built on a shortened 1967 VW chassis, but the title indicates “1973 Reconstruction”. Despite the title’s implication, this car is represented as a real SR2,- number 103, in fact. The seller says enough spare parts are included to virtually rebuild the entire engine.
The seller also didn’t give us much of a view into the interior, except to say that the seats are custom-built buckets. The scissor doors were always a feature of the street roadster, but for the SR2, the hinge mechanism was reworked to improve durability. The tires are new and we’re promised no rust anywhere. The fiberglass is also said to be in good shape.
The seller is not under financial duress, but plans to “spend the next year on the water”, so before this little number goes into storage, he’s trying out the market. Meyers SR2s don’t come up for sale often, but a recent transaction over at Hemmings set a price of $25,200 for a Porsche-powered example. A smattering of older advertisements suggest that our seller is not far off with his buy-it-now price. Would you own this cheeky roadster?
Always wanted one of these. Even considered buying one for my daughter way back then from Karma. Took her to see them being built, but she didn’t want one (bought her a Fiero instead). This one’s nice but I’d have to have a later IRS pan under it.
I’m a 73 year old guy but can I be your daughter?
If I had $15 large, this would be gone.
It is gone…sold
Sold with the Buy It Now.
liked the hrd tops back then, thought he had 3 different ones, one more enclosed’n sporty?
Couldnt understand the single purpose ‘dune buggy’ but dont live in SoCal.
The porsche equipped would bea handful~
This styling has remained rather timeless amongst the VW kit cars. Few kit cars are as nice looking today as in our memories. This version looks great and would be an ideal local commuter car. I never owned one, but if I did I doubt I would ever sell it.
Sold
These remind me of my favorite Hot Wheels – the Jack Rabbit Special.
The Jack Rabbit was real! It was a buggy based on a VW Rabbit. Very cool.
7 yrs ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Volkswagen/comments/8f4m8g/any_of_you_familiar_with_the_jack_rabbit_kit/#lightbox
nevah heareda 1
This Hot Wheel came out in like 1969, so the Jack Rabbit kit must have been modelled after the Hot Wheel.
Anybody know who made the kit to go on VW pan that looked like a. 1920s race car The body was metal not fiberglass
“No”.
“…who made the kit …”
When did U C it, when was it manafactured or where was it made.
We need a lill more to help w/this one
It was just for sale a couple months ago in DE for $9000. Not a bad quick flip. I had thought about checking it out when the previous owner had it for sale.
“…1 bid, ended…”
dont mean it sold, does it?
I went there to see if he got the outrageous 14K+$ asked.
Cant tell~
I’d like it better if it werent so ‘angular’ & 1980’s – ish. But more as I remembered (C my above post) other ‘enclosed’ dune buggies I liked
back then. Rounded is always better in my automotive stylin eye, yup long
hoods, short decks’n FBs. I guess I’m pretty boring. Just wanna C variations on that theme. Was the chrysler crossxxx (tech? fire?) the most recent one like that?
chrlsful: It did indeed sell for the Buy It Now price: