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A Place in the Sun From the Beach to the Desert

THE dune buggy always seems like one of those all-American lifestyle gadgets that just arrived one day — like the surfboard, the skateboard and the snowmobile — more or less fully formed and ready to ride.

But the dune buggy did have an inventor and can trace its roots back to its Adam, an elemental machine called Old Red. And this year brings an anniversary of perhaps the most important moment in its history, according to the New York Times.

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