 The advertisement was for the Gordon Biersch brewery and restaurant located in Whitby.Because of the ad it was often referred to as "The Beer Bus" and made its way onto page 5 of "The End of an Era" along with a photo and the nickname.With the creation of Durham Region Transit, all Oshawa Transit buses were reassigned bus numbers with the addition of an 8 before their original number designation, thus bus 1xx became bus 81xx.