The image quickly became a "beacon of hope" for some in the wake of Los Angeles' deadly January 2025 wildfires.

Two days before the Palisades fire erupted, Preston Martin parked the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 on a flat spot up the hill from the Getty Villa NBC Universal, Inc. Preston Martin figured the retro blue ...

A photo of the van, taken by an Associated Press photographer, circulated widely on television and online, giving people a ...

A RETRO blue VW van stands defiant after miraculously surviving the deadly Los Angeles wildfires. Stunned former owner Preston Martin, 24, assumed the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 van had been consumed ...

LOS ANGELES -- Preston Martin figured the retro blue Volkswagen bus he slept in for a year during college was a goner, given that he parked it in a Malibu neighborhood just before the Palisades ...

A retro Volkswagen van has inadvertently become a “beacon of hope” for Los Angeles area residents as they start to pick up ...

Preston Martin figured the retro blue Volkswagen van he slept in for a year during college was a goner, given that he parked ...

The kit is available in three variations, reflecting the EU-spec, US-spec, and South African-spec versions of the classic VW ...

Preston Martin parked the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 on a flat spot up the hill from the Getty Villa NBC Universal, Inc. Preston Martin figured the retro blue Volkswagen van he slept in for a year ...

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