After owning beach buggies for many years, Simon ‘Chad’ Chadwick and Richard Crees were in the ideal position to develop a new model which would address some of the shortcomings they’d found in other kits.

And, instead of moaning and dreaming, they did exactly that, launching the Doon Buggy company – named after the way folk in their Black Country home pronounce ‘Dune’ – in 1999.

A brand-new take on a well-trodden path, theirs did utilise the same 390mm chassis cut as others enabling existing Dune Buggy owners to rebody their exchange cars using the Doon design.

August 2001 saw the first car emerge, a dark green kit ref S001-01 for Richard, followed by S002-01 a turquoise kit for Chad.

The naming nomenclature is simple: S=Short, L=Long, the next kit number in sequence and the year of manufacture.

2003 saw the long-wheelbase Doon emerge, which used an unmodified VW Beetle chassis, cleverly making the kit fully IVA exempt and so even easier to build.

Customers loved it, and the LWB...