00:00 [car engine]
00:02 [music]
00:04 We wanted to understand what influenced Bruce Myers to create the Myers-Mangs,
00:09 one of the most revolutionary vehicles ever invented.
00:12 [music]
00:15 We started by showing up at his weekly get-togethers at Santa Nofre Beach,
00:19 just north of San Diego.
00:21 [music]
00:23 Myers and his friends, some he's known since the 1930s,
00:27 still surf, play guitar, and sing.
00:31 It's like a scene out of a surf movie from the 1960s.
00:36 We found out that Bruce has been surrounded by the ocean and music nearly all of his life.
00:42 [music]
00:44 My life was a beach boy, a sandlot kind of a thing.
00:49 I had an old '39 Ford station wagon that was surfboards were always sticking out the back.
00:56 And it was the picture of the goof-off on the beach.
01:00 You know, that's where I come from. I'm the original, I suppose.
01:03 [music]
01:05 One of his other passions was cars.
01:07 Like a lot of teenagers in Southern California, Myers was drawn to hot-rodding.
01:13 [music]
01:15 After a few trips to the junkyard, you could scrounge enough parts to build a car
01:19 that looked cool on the streets and that could be raced.
01:23 [music]
01:25 The dry lake beds of the high deserts were only a couple of hours away from the beach.
01:30 Myers joined the fun and took his car up there to see what it could do.
01:34 [music]
01:36 It was a free-spirited group committed to speed.
01:40 They were hands-on, self-taught inventors whose passion would eventually create the sport of drag racing
01:47 and change the automotive world forever.
01:50 [music]
01:52 All of Bruce's seemingly unrelated pursuits were laying the groundwork for the creation of his revolutionary vehicle.
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