If you didn’t have a dune buggy or a van with outrageously flared arches and an eye-hurting paint job you were nothing in those days — or at least that’s what those of us who were too young ...

That's a dune buggy, and Jimi Hendrix owned a classic Meyers Manx. Picture a stripped-down, go-kart-like vehicle with big, chunky tires perfect for cruising on the beach or tearing through sand dunes.