With this special little business of happy, timing is proving to be everything!

Meet #4, The Little Red Truck that Got Away! She’s a 1960 VW Split Window Single Cab truck and there’s a LOT to this story, we suggest you visit our Bits & Pieces section to read the entire PART 1 & PART 2 of how this sweet truck joined the Posies Flower Truck family! It’s a doozie!

The road this sweet truck took to find it’s way BACK to Tampa is nothing short of epic! There’s a 1960 VW little red truck Stephanie named Rosie back in 2018 after attempting to purchase it from Local Volks friend Dallas Wilfong of Belleair, Florida. However, it was not in the cards at the time and he sold it to Nathan and Kassy Ebling of South Carolina who painted it blue and white for their business Lily’s Flower Truck. Note, the couple reached out to us after seeing a post on Instagram to help us close some gaps. Shortly thereafter they moved to Norton Shores, Michigan with the flower truck in tow. They eventually sold it to Kate Dart of Saint Simons Island, Georgia where the Merci Bouquet Flower Truck business was born. And yes, Kate then reached out to us and well my little red truck found its way back some 4 years later! You just can’t make this stuff up! Who else thinks Rosie is her forever name?

We quickly learned that her life on the island and time in the North was not kind to her. She had rusted out doors and needed a lot of love. We turned her over to a trusted body shop and over the course of 11 months she underwent a complete restoration. This included body work, welding, sanding, painting in our iconic Posies blue. She needed new safari windows, wheels, tarpaulin and the list kept going. We nicknamed this process “Pacification” – in July of 2024 she was ready to have her turn as the oldest but newest our of restoration flower truck!

Rosie made her big debut during a 90 day activation during the summer of 2024 with a fun collaboration with Hyde House @Public Studio! We learned they had big doors that opened the space for vehicles to park inside and that was it, we escaped the heat and parked sweet Rosie inside. It was a dream come true and one thing was certain, Rosie knew how to be a flower truck, no training needed!

The photo gallery below shows her as a Posies Flower Truck, her time being painted from a red truck to a blue and white flower truck. She’s transformed a few times in her long truck career!