Bermuda Buggy

Bert Vos established Bermuda Buggy in 1969 after encountering the American dune-buggy movement during a trip to the United States. The company offered one fiberglass recreational body for a Volkswagen Beetle floorpan shortened by 30 centimetres, either as a kit or a completed automobile. A standard kit was advertised at 950 Dutch guilders, while the rear-mounted air-cooled engine, transaxle and much of the running gear came from the customer's donor Beetle, so engine size and performance varied rather than defining separate Bermuda models. Vos transferred the business to Roel Arends in 1971 because he lacked time to continue it. Arends operated it for approximately two years; after about a one-year pause, Willem van de Vlekkert resumed production at Epe and continued through 1979. Total output across all three periods was approximately twenty. No surviving evidence establishes a factory model name, second body, long-wheelbase derivative or formal generation change, so the catalog preserves one simply named Buggy and records the interrupted chronology instead of manufacturing extra variants.

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