Just as the SRV man came to the door here in Holland, M. Massat from Beaurepaire also delivered the groceries. In the interior you can still clearly see how it transported bottles of wine in the fifties and sixties, had shelves and a refrigerator available for your daily food and you could also order flower arrangements at the cash register.

His business must have run well, because this is not a standard bus. An unknown coachbuilder has done his best on the graceful lines and all kinds of beautiful details. The line above the side doors is very nice, the eyebrow above the windscreen works well against the sun and in case of rain it has nice windscreen wipers that stick their shaft through the windscreen.

The 4-cylinder technique is not known for its speed records and any braking delay also requires a lot of physical effort. So is it still usable in current traffic? No idea. What we do know is that, with its advertisement for an extinct coffee brand, it has a beautiful appearance.

Complete restoration might be a shame, just preparing it technically or even letting it radiate its beauty statically can also be enough. Let us know if you have great plans with it. Do it quickly, before we come up with them ourselves, because secretly we would love to keep it…