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Not many cars represent the spirit of an era in the collective imagination. GM in the US, Ferrari, Porsche and Mercedes in Europe… or SEAT in Spain are just some of the brands responsible for creating icons of the car industry. On the other hand, when we speak of vans, we can easily say there is only one: the iconic Volkswagen Bus. Also known as the T1, Bulli, Kombi or Transporter, this van of the 1960’s became a worldwide symbol of the hippie movement and remains to this day as an icon of that era. The responsible for this large-scale phenomena was Ben Pon, importer of Volkswagen. During one of his visits to the Wolfsburg factory in 1947, this Dutch fell in love with a vehicle that was used by the factory workers to transport the heaviest pieces around the factory sections. Originally built from a Volkswagen Beetle (Type 1), by the workers in the factory, that invention inspired Pon, who took out his notebook and sketched the first design of what would become the most charismatic van in the planet. Two years later, Heinrich Nordhoff, director of the Factory, presented four different variations for the Transporter collection. The polyvalent van entered into production at the beginning of 1950 and began selling at a very reasonable price. Demand quickly skyrocketed and since then more tan 12 million vans have been sold around the world.