\u2018There is magic in that van,\u2019 former owner Preston Martin tells AP. \u2018It should have been toasted, but here we are\u2019<\/p>\n
Preston Martin figured the retro blue Volkswagen van he slept in for a year during college was a goner, given that he had parked it in a Malibu neighborhood just before the Palisades fire ripped through, reducing homes and cars to rubble and charred metal.<\/p>\n
So the surfboard maker was stunned to find that the vehicle had survived. Not only that, a photo of the vibrant bus taken by an Associated Press photographer was circulating widely on television and online, giving viewers a measure of joy.<\/p>\n
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