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1980 “The First Hess Truck” (Red Switch)
$63.35
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- Country/Region of Manufacture: Hong Kong
- Theme: Gas & Oil
- Color: Green
- Condition: New
- Brand: Hess
- Time Period Manufactured: 1980-89
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Date of Creation: 1980
Description
1982 “The Firts HESS Truck” (Red Switch)
A classic in more ways than one, the “First Hess Truck” ranks among the most finely detailed toy trucks in the series. It is based on the secondhand six-wheeled Chevy fuel delivery truck that company founder Leon Hess drove when he started the company in 1933, so it is, quite literally, the first Hess truck. This eleven-inch toy is painted in the original Hess quartet of colors and filled with marvelous features – opening doors that reveal the cab interior, working lights, rubber foot treads at the door, and a rubber oil-delivery hose that spools and unspools. Mr. Leon Hess’s original 1933 Chevy is now proudly displayed at the Hess corporate office in Houston, Texas.
