When Mark Terrill saw the blue Volkswagen microbus parked amid the charred ruins of the fires that tore through parts of the Los Angeles area earlier this year, he was thinking it was a nice splash of color.
But the Associated Press photographer had captured an image as he rode in a helicopter to survey the damage — the worst he’s seen in 40 years covering fires — that offered a captivating message of hope, one that led to a remarkable moment at this year’s LA Auto Show.
The 1977 blue-over-white T2 microbus had miraculously survived the fires, but it hadn’t done so unscathed…