
I've spent 20 years driving to patients. This VW California is the next chapter: clinic on wheels at dawn, film set and writing desk the rest of the day, all over southern France and Europe. I'm funding it by selling the bodywork. Your logo goes on, and it never comes off.
Most sponsored vehicles sit in traffic. This one has a job. Twelve days a month it runs a full home-care round on the Bassin d'Arcachon. The rest of the time it carries a camera, a laptop, and a nurse who ships apps. Here's a Tuesday.
Engine on. First patient at 6:15. Your logo is already working.
Twenty house calls. Twenty driveways, twenty streets, every neighbor awake.
Terrasse, Arcachon. Van parked in sight. I write scripts and answer sponsors.
Filming. The van is the set. Every YouTube frame includes the bodywork.
Karate with my son. Parked outside the dojo, facing the road.
A63 south. Weekend shoot in the Basque country. Tolls, fuel stops, beach parkings.




Matte grey paint, black roof: a factory-made background for vinyl. No lights, no side glass, no windshield. The roof and the rear window, though, turned out to be too good to keep. Sizes are cut to the flat metal below the belt line of a van measuring 5 173 × 1 941 × 1 972 mm (VW's own figures), measured, not guessed. Printed, die-cut, laminated, installed by a pro. It stays until the van does.
| Size | Placement | What it does | Available | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
L 90 × 50 cm |
Tailgate, front doors | Readable from the next lane on the highway. The tailgate faces every car behind me, all day. | 3 of 3 open | 9 000 € HT |
M 60 × 35 cm |
Rear quarters, flanks | Readable at a red light, a beach parking, a toll booth. | 6 of 6 open | 5 000 € HT |
S 25 × 20 cm |
Fenders, rocker panels, tailgate sides | A stamp that does 20 000 km a year. | 12 of 12 open | 1 500 € HT |
| Slot | Placement | What it does | Starting bid | Current bid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Roof 250 × 120 cm |
The pop-top, one of one | Owns every drone shot. At camp the roof rises three metres up: a billboard I sleep under. | 15 000 € HT |
no bids yet |
XL ×2 120 × 80 cm |
The sliding doors | Opens in front of every patient, every fuel stop, every camera setup. | 12 000 € HT |
no bids yet |
Hood 130 × 70 cm |
The face of the van | Front three-quarter is the default angle of every photo and thumbnail. | 8 000 € HT |
no bids yet |
Glass 110 × 60 cm |
Rear window, micro-perforated | One-way film, the kind buses wear. The car behind reads you all the way down the A63. | 5 000 € HT |
no bids yet |
Fixed slots activate the moment they're paid: vinyl on, filmed, done. Auction slots close when the floor is reached; highest bid wins, pays, rides. Nobody pays to wait.
Same van, same Bassin, golden hour. Every slot taken: the sliding doors carrying the XLs, the hood wearing its one-of-one, the roof owning the drone frame, the rear window in one-way perforated film reading loud from three cars back. This is what your logo joins.



AI mockups. The brands shown are illustrative, not sponsors (yet). The first real logos choose their spots.
Sponsors get the tracker link. Street, speed, odometer, in real time. At 6 a.m. it's on a gravel driveway on the Bassin. On a Friday night it's somewhere on the A63 with a drone in the trunk. You'll know exactly where your money is parked.
Because sponsorship money is taxable income, and nobody funding a vehicle on the internet ever tells you that. The French state takes roughly a third before a wheel turns. So the plan has a floor and a ceiling, both itemized.
The floor puts a California Beach Camper on the road: base spec, pop-top, same bodywork, same rounds, same cameras. Every fixed slot activates the day it's paid, vinyl on, filmed. The ceiling is the full Ocean build, the Vespa for narrow rounds, and a year of diesel: that's what the auctions climb toward. Both numbers come straight from the Volkswagen configurator.
Home-care nurse for 20 years. Five apps shipped this year. I build tools for the healthcare workers tech forgot, I write about it, and I'm turning the road between my patients and my ideas into a YouTube channel. The van is where all of it happens.
I won't promise you impressions or ROI. Here's what I can promise:
Questions on a slot, a co-branding idea, a weird placement I haven't thought of, or you just want the media kit before deciding. I answer between two patients, usually the same day.

The first logo picks its spot. The bodywork fills once and never resets. When it's full, the only way onto this van is to buy the whole van, and it's not for sale.
Four sizes, twenty-four placements, fixed prices. Pick how big you want to ride.
XL · the sliding door · 26 000 € HT + 20 % VAT
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Reserving costs nothing yet. Your slot is held for 72 h once confirmed by email. If the 110 000 € funding floor isn't reached within twelve months, every payment is refunded in full.