Barris and a dune buggy called the Groovy Ocelot, on a music tv show called Groovy, probably capitalizing on the Beach movies with Annette in 64 and 65


One of the prime 1960s music tv shows was Groovy, introduced by host,


https://books.google.com/books?id=ytPXCnLmIycC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=sand+chariots+ocelot&source=bl&ots=WFzSqV9meJ&sig=ACfU3U1WAReFmTHZyPCWYIAMf49C1lNvAQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi54f3qg4bhAhUSK30KHebQDxUQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Former Meyers Manx distributor turned-buggy manufacturer Marion Ruggles produced the Ocelot buggy through his Sand Chariots operation in Fullerton, from 1967 to 1970

They were named a variety of things... the Ocelot SS, the Ocelot II, and the Vaquero

It seems to me that the name Ocelot was a play on the cat name Manx that Bruce Meyer made iconic



http://www.dunebuggyarchives.com/registry/Ocelot
http://beachwheels.blogspot.com/2011/01/sand-chariots-of-california-ocelot-ss.html

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