Dune Buggy

I like the paint job on this car, and the eyes in the tires look like a cat.

Since I don't do Deadpool, I think I may reassign this car.

And give it to Catwoman.

The original dune buggy was the Meyers Manx and that is a cat name.

Joker is fond of surfing and Catwoman has worked with him in the past so this could be a good car for her.
 

Deadpool Dune Buggy

This is a Deadpool Hot Wheels.

The motif is supposed to be related to that super hero.

I doubt that he ever actually appeared in a dune buggy because Hot Wheels often takes otherwise stock cars and paints them up for a comic book character.

Nearly all of my Super Hero collection stops at about 1980, and few or no new characters after that.

That 50 year history is really enough for me.

But this is a cool car and so I got one.
 

More Beach Action

In California and in Beach Blanket movies car culture and surfing overlap.  This little car has Malibu on the side of the car and depicts a surfing doing a wipe out.  I have been to Malibu a few times, many TV shows and movies are filmed there and have been for decades.

This car is the Mantaray.  It was in a Batman TV show episode and also in a movie called Bikini Beach.

The original car is a pearl white color, but Hot Wheels has released it in several color schemes.

Dune buggy parked in the parking lot along the beach front.

Two different dune buggies; they are sometimes production vehicles but often they are custom built.

Chicks dig the car.
 

Beach Vehicles

One of my collections is American Cities.  As part of that I have some beach culture.  I grew up in Southern California and spent a lot of time at the beach, and even worked at a fishing bait store for several years.  I use the American cities for World War III games, science fiction games, and role playing games.

The beach culture includes swimmers, sun bathers, scuba divers, fishermen, lifeguards, beach combers, and dune buggy drivers.  Sometimes it includes others like motorcycle riders, and campers.

Here are two dune buggies and a custom surf car.    You can see a lifeguard truck in the background.

Dune buggy on the beach.

Traditionally lifeguards wear red uniforms.

Some places have grass on the beach before it becomes all sand and water.

In California while it is legal to have a home or other private property near the beach, private beaches are prohibited a certain distance above the high water mark at high tide.  The idea is the beaches and coastline are public property and must have public access.  Other states allow private beaches.

I get cheap styrene figures, repaint them and add bases to make my figures for this group.  Based on the Beach Party genre of movies I include a motorcycle gang as a counterpoint for the surfers.  The movies depict them as a two groups that compete for women, bars, and other facilities.
 

Yellow Dune Buggy Part II

Maesto dune buggy.

It's a cute little vehicle and for a really cheap vehicle it is pretty good.

I got a few of these for my Beach Blanket Bingo collection.

I will likely disassemble a couple of them and repaint them.  The paint job is good, but I want more colors.

Shown here with an army Meyers Manx.
 

Maisto Dune Buggy

This is a Hot Wheels dune buggy, the Meyers Manx.

This is a Maisto vehicle that is sort of a modern version of the Meyers Manx.

Back of the card.

The vehicle has nice graphics on the side.

Good paint schemes on the roof lights.

Close up.

Pretty cool vehicle.