[{"id":5815,"permalink":"https:\/\/dirtsportsworld.com\/2022\/10\/27\/museum-and-vintage-short-course-racing-coming-to-crandon-international-raceway\/","title":"Museum and Vintage Short Course Racing Coming to Crandon International Raceway","content":"Crandon International Raceway is taking steps toward the future by making a substantial invest to preserve the past. The Crandon Historical Initiative includes an official partnership with the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nThe project is a joint partnership with ORMHOF that will convert the upstairs area of the iconic barn and turn it into a museum that will house vintage short course vehicles, driver and event memorabilia. A wall of fame will honor drivers and volunteers at Crandon. A \u201cWalk of Fame\u201d area is also set near the podium.\r\n\r\nCrandon\u2019s original board of directors donated $30,000 to get the rights to build the annex. The current ownership donated an additional $11,000.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n\"The Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame is looking forward to partnering with Crandon International Raceway to celebrate the history of short course racing,\" said ORMHOF executive\u00a0administrator\u00a0Barbara Rainey.\r\n\r\nCrandon is also working on having vintage race vehicles compete on the track as part of the historical initiative. A vintage short course racing association will be created.","excerpt":"

Crandon International Raceway is taking steps toward the future by making a substantial invest to preserve the past. The Crandon …<\/p>","date":"October 27, 2022 19:47","categories":[{"id":25047612,"title":"News","slug":"news"},{"id":25047613,"title":"Short Course","slug":"shortcourse"}],"tags":[{"id":25047647,"title":"crandon","slug":"crandon"},{"id":25047649,"title":"crandon international raceway","slug":"crandon-international-raceway"},{"id":25048052,"title":"off road hall of fame","slug":"off-road-hall-of-fame"},{"id":25047742,"title":"shortcourse","slug":"shortcourse"},{"id":25048934,"title":"the big house","slug":"the-big-house"},{"id":25048105,"title":"vintage","slug":"vintage"}]},{"id":1968,"permalink":"https:\/\/dirtsportsworld.com\/2021\/02\/19\/meyers-manx-founder-bruce-meyers-passes-away\/","title":"Meyers Manx Founder Bruce Meyers Passes Away","content":"Meyers Manx creator Bruce Meyers has died at the age of 94. Meyers created the Meyers-Manx dune buggy which became highly popular in the 1960\u2019s. It was known as a California beach icon and was highly celebrated in pop culture.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nMeyers originally created the iconic body in his Newport Beach garage. It was a fiberglass body designed to fit on an old Volkswagen. The Manx raced in the very first NORRA Mexican 1000 in 1969. The Meyers-Manx was also used in several Hollywood productions.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nBruce Meyers was inducted into the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1978. \u00a0Meyers sold his company last year to Troutsdale Ventures, which plans to carry on Meyers Manx legacy of fun, freedom and expression that Bruce and Winnie originally created.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLead image credit: Historic Vehicle Association","excerpt":"

Meyers Manx creator Bruce Meyers has died at the age of 94. Meyers created the Meyers-Manx dune buggy which became …<\/p>","date":"February 19, 2021 17:57","categories":[{"id":25047610,"title":"Desert Racing","slug":"desert-racing"},{"id":25047612,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"tags":[{"id":25048054,"title":"baja legend","slug":"baja-legend"},{"id":25048050,"title":"Bruce Meyers","slug":"bruce-meyers"},{"id":25047810,"title":"legend","slug":"legend"},{"id":25047754,"title":"mexican 1000","slug":"mexican-1000"},{"id":25048051,"title":"meyers manx","slug":"meyers-manx"},{"id":25047752,"title":"norra","slug":"norra"},{"id":25048052,"title":"off road hall of fame","slug":"off-road-hall-of-fame"},{"id":25048053,"title":"ormhof","slug":"ormhof"}]}]{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "user_comment": "This feed allows you to read the posts from this site in any feed reader that supports the JSON Feed format. To add this feed to your reader, copy the following URL -- https://dirtsportsworld.com/tag/off-road-hall-of-fame/feed/json/ -- and add it your reader.", "home_page_url": "https://dirtsportsworld.com/tag/off-road-hall-of-fame/", "feed_url": "https://dirtsportsworld.com/tag/off-road-hall-of-fame/feed/json/", "language": "en-US", "title": "off road hall of fame Archives - DirtSportsWorld", "description": "The Voice of Off-Road Motorsports", "icon": "https://i0.wp.com/dirtsportsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-DSW-Web-Icon.png?fit=59%2C59&ssl=1", "items": [ { "id": "https://dirtsportsworld.com/?p=5815", "url": "https://dirtsportsworld.com/2022/10/27/museum-and-vintage-short-course-racing-coming-to-crandon-international-raceway/", "title": "Museum and Vintage Short Course Racing Coming to Crandon International Raceway", "content_html": "

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