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Ultimately, the plan was to research this discovery, and find who the people behind Safari Enterprises we’re.

It made its way home, to await in a long line, behind other projects. It was poorly painted red with black naugahyde bucket seats, and a metal “Safari” badge on the nose. It sported Ansen slot mags, with vintage “Pos-a-Traction” redline tires. It was in pretty rough shape, but all complete. It didn’t matter, I knew what it was, and I wasn’t leaving without it. It was for sale and the seller had no idea what it was. Then unexpectedly, about ten years back at a big VW car show and swap meet in Los Angeles, a real Super Safari appeared. So being a collector of rare, designer dune buggies, finding a Super Safari is in the top five. Amongst the car’s fans, it’s been said many times, “I wish they actually made the Super Safari”. Even the images of a metallic gold buggy on the model box, were drawings from Revell’s own art department. The only other evidence of it, was a model kit produced by Revell. All of the advertisements for it only featured artist renderings from Daniel.

The small community of auto enthusiasts that were aware of this car, believed it was never actually built. Now I say mythological, because the problem is, this buggy had never actually been seen in person by those looking for it. This buggy was a product from Safari Enterprises, called the “Super Safari”.

#Lancer dune buggy kits movie

As George Barris’ shop foreman for decades, Dean built numerous tv and movie cars like the Batmobile and the Munster Koach. This buggy was also revered as a prototype built by Dick Dean, a renowned kustom car builder. It was proudly touted as being designed by the famous Tom Daniel, known for dreaming up those fun, wacky model kits and Hot Wheels we all grew up with. Its body was made to fit on a cut down, VW Beetle chassis (80 inch wheelbase) and was advertised in the late 60’s as an exciting new sport buggy to hit the scene. Take it away Richard 🙂įor the longest time, in the designer fiberglass dune buggy world, there was a mythological car of legend and folklore. Let’s turn it over to Richard and learn more about this special limited production design. Some designs such as in today’s story definitely stand out among others. Dune Buggies were the craze from the mid 1960s thru the mid 1970s and while we may think of them as all of similar design – they were not. Today’s story is about another rare car Richard researched and found – a Dune Buggy with legendary history – the Super Safari. Richard recently updated us on his sport custom find – the 1953 Porter Pegasus. We have Richard Brown to thank for today’s story.