If you were fortunate enough to attend the Kuwait Concours d'Elegance last month, you might have seen a little old man in a striped sweater walking around the exhibits, cane in hand and chirpy wife in tow. Not many paid attention to him. With so many classics on display, what could one twinkly eyed pensioner have to offer?
If only you knew his story; how about the fact that he shot down Kamikazes in the Second World War, jumped off a burning aircraft carrier, sailed across the South Seas in a homemade boat, raced hot rods on dry lakes and then found the time in his 40s to invent the dune buggy? Not to mention marrying six times, inventing the hot tub and building the famous Bricklin SV-1?
If that got your attention, then it's time you learnt about the impossibly charming Bruce Meyers, creator of the famous Meyers Manx - and one of the most fascinating men in the footnotes of automotive history.
Meyers was in Kuwait City to present a lecture about the history of his dune buggy. Somewhat nervous about speaking before a large crowd, fate issued him a pass when he was forced to skip his own presentation after staying out too long in the desert watching the grandchildren of his off-road creation surf the dunes. The next morning over coffee, 85-year-old Meyers is glad to leave the lecture hall behind and eager to tell me about the inspiration for his oft-copied invention - Mickey Mouse. "I used to read the funnies in the newspaper," he explains.
"All the characters - Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse - all drove little dinky cars with big fat tyres. Maybe my instincts when I was creating the dune buggy were guided by my memories; it was a subliminal urge that came out. I loved those little cars as a child."
Most might have left it at that, an unknowable pipe dream. Not in California, where, Meyers says, everyone's a little bit crazy.
"In California, we don't work in factories all of our lives to get a gold watch. I was a beach boy with a lot of talent, obviously, and I did what I wanted, when I wanted. Since I was a little boy I was always making something with my hands, like skateboards and things like that. Making a car was just another way of expressing myself."
With six years of art school under his belt and experience building fibreglass sail boats for Jensen Marine, the biggest boat company in the state, the pieces were slowly locking into place for Meyer to create his car. He'd already raced flathead Ford coupés and roadsters on dried-out river beds as a member of California's famed Quartermilers club. What was missing was the chance to do something different, until one day he ventured out into the arid desert of California.
"On some of these dunes, people were playing around with these old cars called waterpumpers. It was an old Ford or Chevy with two wheels on each end of the rear axle with the front wheels way out in front. It wasn't very effective. But when the Volkswagen [Beetle] came along, we found that it was much more efficient.
"The dune buggy owes itself to the Volkswagen really," he says. "The rear-engined car is always more effective off-road, with far more traction. They worked so much better that I decided I could make one of those that you drive on the street, and that it was a good way to make a cute little car like my cartoon characters had driven when I was a child," he recalls fondly.
In 1963, at the age of 40 and after working on it for a full year, Meyers finally unveiled his creation - the Manx, an name bestowed on it by the editors of Road & Track magazine, who noted its stubby similarity to the cat without a tail. To prove the car's off-road reputation, Meyers entered it in the torturous Baja 1000 rally - and promptly smashed the record.
"The motorcycles did the 1,000-mile Baja in something like 40 hours. I beat them by around five hours, all loaded up with 65 gallons of gasoline. We were the only ones in the history of the off-road racers to never have even a pit stop."
The car was an instant hit, with Meyers wildly underestimating the demand for the "happy car".
"There were 45 magazines in those days around the world and I was in every one of them. Car And Driver did an article about the Meyers Manx with me on the cover, which produced 350 orders. I had one set of moulds, could only make three or four kits in one week. That's why everyone started copying it, because I couldn't produce them fast enough," he says bitterly.
Thanks to the car's memorable appearances in films such as The Thomas Crown Affair - where Steve McQueen drove a Corvair-engined Manx - demand for the little buggy shot up exponentially. But Meyers never patented his designs, and soon, shops all over the country were offering versions of the Manx.
Meyers took the copycat manufacturers to court but, sadly, lost the case and, subsequently, the patent rights to his own invention. After seven years, his company was forced to close down.
"There was a smarter lawyer on the other side than mine," he says, still visibly upset more than 40 years later. "They took everything. I had a company that had 60 or 70 people, a trucking fleet, 200 dealers; we were making 25 kits in one day. And when it all went away in 1970 it just left me hanging. Seven good years, that's all I had.
"I felt terrible and cheated. I spent the next twenty-something years just not thinking right. I was so unhappy."
It must seem cruel, but Meyer was no stranger to hardship. After his older brother drowned while he was young, he trained to be a lifeguard and eventually joined the Merchant Marines. At the age of 19, he was drafted into the US Navy to fight in the Second World War.
Meyers was stationed as a gunner on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill as it led operations in the Pacific against the Japanese armada. From the onset, the carrier came under assault from Japanese suicide pilots - the feared Kamikazes - and it was the job of this young man from California to bring them down in flight or be killed trying.
On the morning of May 11, 1945, his luck ran out. With the ship supporting the US raid on Okinawa, two Kamikazes punched through the heavy anti-aircraft fire and then the thick armour of the Bunker Hill. With the ship taking on water, flames raging on the deck and with bomb-laden planes unable to take off or land, the order was given to abandon ship.
"It was 50 feet to the water," remembers Meyers. "There was a guy standing next to me on the rail. I kept counting down from three and asking him to jump, but he was afraid. I finally jumped without him."
Filled with flaming debris, the water was scarcely better. A good swimmer, Meyers donated his life vest to another struggling sailor. He also came upon a stricken pilot who was severely burnt and stayed with him until they were both rescued by a passing destroyer about five hours later.
The pilot survived and Meyers, who was relatively unhurt, volunteered to help take the still-floating Bunker Hill back to the US for repair. But when he returned to the ship, he was met with a terrible scene.
"Four hundred men died on the Bunker Hill. I spent almost a month coming back with a skeleton crew, pulling the dead men out of the ship."
Among the bodies was the young sailor who refused to jump into the Pacific. Trapped between his fear of the ocean and the raging inferno, the boy from Nebraska put off his choice too long and never made it off the flight deck.
"He was just 20 years old," he says, with sadness.
Meyer's war was over, but not his love affair with the sea. He returned to the Merchant Marines, where he soon found a new adventure. "I sailed off on the South Seas on a square-rigged ship. That was a dream of mine, since I read Robinson Crusoe. Somebody wanted me to build a trading post and I volunteered, went out there and lived on a coral atoll for six months with a little village of Polynesians," he reminiscences.
"Is it still there today? I wonder. I don't know. It's been a long time."
After the failure of the Manx company, a demoralised Meyer started over, with mixed results. He continued to invent and build, claiming the hot tub and the spray-on pickup bed liner as his ideas, among others, as well as building the prototype for the famous gullwing sports car, the Bricklin SV-1. Today, he still builds Manx buggies, and he has made his peace with history.
"The Japanese have a saying: 'In all things can be found something beautiful'," says Meyers. "People smile when they see the Manx. Don't focus on anything but those two people driving it, who are happy. I've seen thousands of dune buggies. If you think about the happiness that I brought to those people, then that's a good thing."
PROFILE OF HALAN
Started: November 2017
Founders: Mounir Nakhla, Ahmed Mohsen and Mohamed Aboulnaga
Based: Cairo, Egypt
Sector: transport and logistics
Size: 150 employees
Investment: approximately $8 million
Investors include: Singapore’s Battery Road Digital Holdings, Egypt’s Algebra Ventures, Uber co-founder and former CTO Oscar Salazar
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The biog:
Languages: Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, basic Russian
Favourite food: Pizza
Best food on the road: rice
Favourite colour: silver
Favourite bike: Gold Wing, Honda
Favourite biking destination: Canada
UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
THE CLOWN OF GAZA
Director: Abdulrahman Sabbah
Starring: Alaa Meqdad
Rating: 4/5
RESULTS
1.45pm: Handicap (TB) Dh80,000 (Dirt) 1,400m
Winners: Hyde Park, Royston Ffrench (jockey), Salem bin Ghadayer (trainer)
2.15pm: Conditions (TB) Dh100,000 (D) 1,400m
Winner: Shamikh, Ryan Curatolo, Nicholas Bachalard
2.45pm: Conditions (TB) Dh100,000 (D) 1,200m
Winner: Hurry Up, Royston Ffrench, Salem bin Ghadayer.
3.15pm: Shadwell Jebel Ali Mile Group 3 (TB) Dh575,000 (D) 1,600m
Winner: Blown by Wind, Xavier Ziani, Salem bin Ghadayer
3.45pm: Handicap (TB) Dh72,000 (D) 1,600m
Winner: Mazagran, Tadhg O’Shea, Satish Seemar.
4.15pm: Handicap (TB) Dh64,000 (D) 1,950m
Winner: Obeyaan, Adrie de Vries, Mujeeb Rehman
4.45pm: Handicap (TB) Dh84,000 (D) 1,000m
Winner: Shanaghai City, Fabrice Veron, Rashed Bouresly.
Key facilities
- Olympic-size swimming pool with a split bulkhead for multi-use configurations, including water polo and 50m/25m training lanes
- Premier League-standard football pitch
- 400m Olympic running track
- NBA-spec basketball court with auditorium
- 600-seat auditorium
- Spaces for historical and cultural exploration
- An elevated football field that doubles as a helipad
- Specialist robotics and science laboratories
- AR and VR-enabled learning centres
- Disruption Lab and Research Centre for developing entrepreneurial skills
How much do leading UAE’s UK curriculum schools charge for Year 6?
- Nord Anglia International School (Dubai) – Dh85,032
- Kings School Al Barsha (Dubai) – Dh71,905
- Brighton College Abu Dhabi - Dh68,560
- Jumeirah English Speaking School (Dubai) – Dh59,728
- Gems Wellington International School – Dubai Branch – Dh58,488
- The British School Al Khubairat (Abu Dhabi) - Dh54,170
- Dubai English Speaking School – Dh51,269
*Annual tuition fees covering the 2024/2025 academic year
Ferrari 12Cilindri specs
Engine: naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12
Power: 819hp
Torque: 678Nm at 7,250rpm
Price: From Dh1,700,000
Available: Now
Lexus LX700h specs
Engine: 3.4-litre twin-turbo V6 plus supplementary electric motor
Power: 464hp at 5,200rpm
Torque: 790Nm from 2,000-3,600rpm
Transmission: 10-speed auto
Fuel consumption: 11.7L/100km
On sale: Now
Price: From Dh590,000
Green ambitions
- Trees: 1,500 to be planted, replacing 300 felled ones, with veteran oaks protected
- Lake: Brown's centrepiece to be cleaned of silt that makes it as shallow as 2.5cm
- Biodiversity: Bat cave to be added and habitats designed for kingfishers and little grebes
- Flood risk: Longer grass, deeper lake, restored ponds and absorbent paths all meant to siphon off water
Brief scoreline:
Tottenham 1
Son 78'
Manchester City 0
Real estate tokenisation project
Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.
The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.
Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.
RESULT
Arsenal 0 Chelsea 3
Chelsea: Willian (40'), Batshuayi (42', 49')
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Janet Yellen's Firsts
- In 2014, she became the first woman to lead the US Federal Reserve
- In 1999, she became the first female chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers
Volvo ES90 Specs
Engine: Electric single motor (96kW), twin motor (106kW) and twin motor performance (106kW)
Power: 333hp, 449hp, 680hp
Torque: 480Nm, 670Nm, 870Nm
On sale: Later in 2025 or early 2026, depending on region
Price: Exact regional pricing TBA
Dates for the diary
To mark Bodytree’s 10th anniversary, the coming season will be filled with celebratory activities:
- September 21 Anyone interested in becoming a certified yoga instructor can sign up for a 250-hour course in Yoga Teacher Training with Jacquelene Sadek. It begins on September 21 and will take place over the course of six weekends.
- October 18 to 21 International yoga instructor, Yogi Nora, will be visiting Bodytree and offering classes.
- October 26 to November 4 International pilates instructor Courtney Miller will be on hand at the studio, offering classes.
- November 9 Bodytree is hosting a party to celebrate turning 10, and everyone is invited. Expect a day full of free classes on the grounds of the studio.
- December 11 Yogeswari, an advanced certified Jivamukti teacher, will be visiting the studio.
- February 2, 2018 Bodytree will host its 4th annual yoga market.
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MATCH DETAILS
Juventus 2 (Bonucci 36, Ronaldo 90 6)
Genoa 1 (Kouame 40)
ACL Elite (West) - fixtures
Monday, Sept 30
Al Sadd v Esteghlal (8pm)
Persepolis v Pakhtakor (8pm)
Al Wasl v Al Ahli (8pm)
Al Nassr v Al Rayyan (10pm)
Tuesday, Oct 1
Al Hilal v Al Shorta (10pm)
Al Gharafa v Al Ain (10pm)
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Essentials
The flights: You can fly from the UAE to Iceland with one stop in Europe with a variety of airlines. Return flights with Emirates from Dubai to Stockholm, then Icelandair to Reykjavik, cost from Dh4,153 return. The whole trip takes 11 hours. British Airways flies from Abu Dhabi and Dubai to Reykjavik, via London, with return flights taking 12 hours and costing from Dh2,490 return, including taxes.
The activities: A half-day Silfra snorkelling trip costs 14,990 Icelandic kronur (Dh544) with Dive.is. Inside the Volcano also takes half a day and costs 42,000 kronur (Dh1,524). The Jokulsarlon small-boat cruise lasts about an hour and costs 9,800 kronur (Dh356). Into the Glacier costs 19,500 kronur (Dh708). It lasts three to four hours.
The tours: It’s often better to book a tailor-made trip through a specialist operator. UK-based Discover the World offers seven nights, self-driving, across the island from £892 (Dh4,505) per person. This includes three nights’ accommodation at Hotel Husafell near Into the Glacier, two nights at Hotel Ranga and two nights at the Icelandair Hotel Klaustur. It includes car rental, plus an iPad with itinerary and tourist information pre-loaded onto it, while activities can be booked as optional extras. More information inspiredbyiceland.com
Banned items
Dubai Police has also issued a list of banned items at the ground on Sunday. These include:
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What can victims do?
Always use only regulated platforms
Stop all transactions and communication on suspicion
Save all evidence (screenshots, chat logs, transaction IDs)
Report to local authorities
Warn others to prevent further harm
Courtesy: Crystal Intelligence
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UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
In-demand jobs and monthly salaries
- Technology expert in robotics and automation: Dh20,000 to Dh40,000
- Energy engineer: Dh25,000 to Dh30,000
- Production engineer: Dh30,000 to Dh40,000
- Data-driven supply chain management professional: Dh30,000 to Dh50,000
- HR leader: Dh40,000 to Dh60,000
- Engineering leader: Dh30,000 to Dh55,000
- Project manager: Dh55,000 to Dh65,000
- Senior reservoir engineer: Dh40,000 to Dh55,000
- Senior drilling engineer: Dh38,000 to Dh46,000
- Senior process engineer: Dh28,000 to Dh38,000
- Senior maintenance engineer: Dh22,000 to Dh34,000
- Field engineer: Dh6,500 to Dh7,500
- Field supervisor: Dh9,000 to Dh12,000
- Field operator: Dh5,000 to Dh7,000
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UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
The specs: 2017 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn
Price, base / as tested: Dhxxx
Engine: 5.7L V8
Transmission: Eight-speed automatic
Power: 395hp @ 5,600rpm
Torque: 556Nm @ 3,950rpm
Fuel economy, combined: 12.7L / 100km
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Day 3 stumps
New Zealand 153 & 249
Pakistan 227 & 37-0 (target 176)
Pakistan require another 139 runs with 10 wickets remaining
JAPANESE GRAND PRIX INFO
Schedule (All times UAE)
First practice: Friday, 5-6.30am
Second practice: Friday, 9-10.30am
Third practice: Saturday, 7-8am
Qualifying: Saturday, 10-11am
Race: Sunday, 9am-midday
Race venue: Suzuka International Racing Course
Circuit Length: 5.807km
Number of Laps: 53
Watch live: beIN Sports HD
UAE v Gibraltar
What: International friendly
When: 7pm kick off
Where: Rugby Park, Dubai Sports City
Admission: Free
Online: The match will be broadcast live on Dubai Exiles’ Facebook page
UAE squad: Lucas Waddington (Dubai Exiles), Gio Fourie (Exiles), Craig Nutt (Abu Dhabi Harlequins), Phil Brady (Harlequins), Daniel Perry (Dubai Hurricanes), Esekaia Dranibota (Harlequins), Matt Mills (Exiles), Jaen Botes (Exiles), Kristian Stinson (Exiles), Murray Reason (Abu Dhabi Saracens), Dave Knight (Hurricanes), Ross Samson (Jebel Ali Dragons), DuRandt Gerber (Exiles), Saki Naisau (Dragons), Andrew Powell (Hurricanes), Emosi Vacanau (Harlequins), Niko Volavola (Dragons), Matt Richards (Dragons), Luke Stevenson (Harlequins), Josh Ives (Dubai Sports City Eagles), Sean Stevens (Saracens), Thinus Steyn (Exiles)