The lovers of "combi" Volkswagen converged this Saturday May 20 to a village near Grenoble where Serial Kombi, small company of 17 employees, inaugurated its new spare parts warehouse of the famous van.

Lined up on a parking in Versoud, rivaling in bright colors and sparkling chrome under the spring sun, Combis are the stars of this Saturday, 20 May.
Combi bar, combi musical-stage, combi trailer, and even a combi-hearse: you can do everything with this flagship vehicle of the German brand, born in 1950, synonymous of freedom and inseparable from the hippy movement.

"It's a toy for big kids. We have Majorettes when we're a kid and a Combi when we grow up," laughs Ludwig Pellissier, barman of the "Fabulous Combi"

Vehicles came from all over France

The occasion of the day Brings together a hundred vehicles coming mainly from the Rhône-Alpes region, but also from Alsace or Lot-et-Garonne for the most courageous, left the day before failing to exceed 110 km / hour on the highway.
Serial Kombi celebrates its 18 years and its extension: a new warehouse of 1,100 square meters to accommodate about 6,000 spare parts references... there is everything, even the vintage fabrics for the benches.

Two lovers of the combi

The adventure begins in 1999 in the barn of Pascal and Yolaine Amodru. He worked in the bank "in costume-tie", she was a graphic designer and they traveled their holiday roads in a Combi.

Tired of having to order spare parts in the United States or England, the couple decides to set up a company. "I was in charge of the orders, Pascal was doing the restoration," says Yolaine, 45.

At the time, "people did not restore, they bought Combi to recover the engine and put it on a beetle." We were against the current, "recalls Pascal.

In 2002, the Amodru team up with a childhood friend of Pascal, Jean-Luc Faure, to set up a company and launch a website. Exit used parts; they focus on the new and also offer parts for Transporter series built since 1980.

8.000 references

The site features 8,000 references and is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German soon .Serial Kombi now has 17 employees, boasts 15% annual growth since its creation and had a turnover of 3.3 million Euros at the end of 2016. The 4 million are expected for this year, according to Pascal Amodru.

Original Source : france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr
 

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