Well not quite, but many wonder why we bus photographers take pictures in their quest looking for the perfect bus and maybe the best answer is because they are there. But there are some vehicles that turn up that might even stir the fascination of those who would not usually give a bus a second glance unless they were trying to cross the road that is. This venerable elegant old Volvo seen in the dry dusty town of Mertola I have shown before in a differnt view as it is a real favourite of mine. Probably too old to receive RN colours one can still imagine how No.9405 must have looked when it was new with that American Fifties automobile inspired grill. Though the antithesis of the more restrained British approach this flamboyant look was also widely to be seen in the countries of South America, the Far East and of course employed by the Japanese as a stylistic template as it's dated export cars and trucks laughingly first rolled off the boat. Indeed sophistication inspired by growth, exposure to the world media plus demand has brought backward countries like India into Today, but not so long ago park one of these in Delhi and they might have thought of it as their Holy Grail and asked, is it the new Bova Futura?
Again a great picture of a period that painting buses into a new RN livery was a time consuming job. Especially in the more remote areas. What we see here is one of the buses from the company with the poetic name Rodoviária do Sotavento do Algarve. Sotavento means something like the "side out of the wind", the lee of the Algarve. Contrary to Barlavento, where the company Frota Azul is ruling now. By the way, allthough rather old, there were buses of this type that were actually painted orange and white.
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