Has anyone run a Manx style dunebuggy at Lemons?

My understanding is they are not legal per Jay.

If you can put a lambo door on a pinto for Lemons, i know you could cage a manx. 

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I thought the rules said no Kit cars..  A dune buggy would fit that bill.

Then you run into the having to prove the one you have was a production car.
Also a few thousand is very optimistic, most were rarely produced in the hundreds.  And the factory produced cars generally tend to bring decent money not Lemons prices. 

All that said a factory built Deserter GS would be incredible.

It is not any different than our car if you cage it completely from the front beam to the torsion housing and build a good rear cage for larger cars to  hit ya.  Now where it gets sticky is cost.  We spent upwards of $2k for our tubing (DOM) is expensive just for the primary pieces in the cage.  I think if you set it up like a Class 5 Score cage  similar to what we did it would be just as safe if not safer than quite a few cars we have seen in Lemons.  Ultimately the sheet metal is not what is going to save you it is the frame/tubing so if a fiberglass Corvette can run hey why not a Myers Buggy.    There are a few other issues like the fuel cell etc that would have to be worked through but if someone is intersted I would say it could be done and they would be happy to have ya if ya have a cute theme and are gratious about it.

Very true the body as a whole becomes a structural member when bolted to the pan.  A Manx buggy is very "flexible" without the structural members of the body.  The biggest problem is most people choose to cage them by bolting/welding to the floor which without the heater channels to tie everything together have no stability at all and will fold up pretty easy. 

As the previous poster stated you could tie in to the front and rear torsion housings but not while fitting it under a stock body.

You would be amazed at the rigidity with glass compared to without. Recyclers learned to knock all the glass out of the old bugs before they put them in the crusher so it would actually crush the first time they tried...

Our MX6's cage was WAY overbuilt, and rather than chop it up to meet the new rules, we added to it. There is literally a full stick of hrew that is simply not needed, but makes the car VERY rigid and will keep the car from folding up if there was a bad wreck. We can stick a jack under the rocker on the driver's side behind the front tire and jack up 3 tires off the ground.

With a Manx bodied vw chassis, you could easily tie the front and rear suspension mounts into the cage and have a VERY rigid and safe car. Might be a little slow though.