Over the mile-long hood of a 1969 Dodge Polara, I watched various lifted 4x4 trucks spit sand as they paid their entrance fee at the ranger booth and powered onto the beach. "Am I going to get stuck?" ...

Ron Weber is a hot rodder recently introduced to dune buggies, but it didn't take him long to discover thrill of dune busting. His flea-weight VW hybrid can climb steepest dunes with best of 'em. It ...

Let's test your movie trivia: Do you know which Steve McQueen movie co-starred a modified dune buggy? That would beThe Thomas Crown Affair(we're talking the original one from 1968). The buggy? It was ...

Gary Reid is used to getting attention. As a 6-foot-plus owner of an unmistakable bubble-topped hot rod, curious stares are nothing new, and the diehard do-it-yourself auto enthusiast is developing a ...

Carl Pegel is getting used to the stares when he sets sail in his 13-foot Sea Ray jet boat. It's not just the skeleton of Capt. Argyle, the pirate on the bow or the fish on the fishing rod rack behind ...

MALIBU, Calif. — When it comes to its iconic Beetle, Volkswagen is finding new ways to tap into feel-good nostalgia of its heyday when humble bug was cheap transportation for Boomers. VW created a ...