Over the mile-long hood of a 1969 Dodge Polara, I watched various lifted 4x4 trucks spit sand as they paid their entrance fee at the ranger booth and powered onto the beach. "Am I going to get stuck?" ...

Ron Weber is a hot rodder recently introduced to dune buggies, but it didn't take him long to discover thrill of dune busting. His flea-weight VW hybrid can climb steepest dunes with best of 'em. It ...