Hess to stop selling toy trucks

Colin:

There was an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution this morning that said Hess will continue to sell trucks but, all sales will be via the internet.

Curt

They have a new one. Saw it today.
More like 1:36 than 1:48.
Who really cares? Someone else will fill the void or not...

 Cool.thanks for the info. Curt 

Probably just people who have collected them all along. The first Hess Truck dates back to 1964:

 

 

My father bought them for my nephew every year from 1980-2002. 

 

They were kind of fun stuff and each year they were somewhat reflective of what was popular.

Official Hess Statement....Hess to continue "Hess Toy Truck" tradition.

Well another Christmas tradition gone.

 I understand they will still be available on line but I will miss going to the station and getting them.

Hess was my Dads gas. He had a car collection and he would take me out every Friday night and fill one of the cars up with high test and then go for a cruise. The lowest price I remember high-test gas was 23.9 cents a gallon. 

My father gave me a Hess truck every year of my life until his passing in 2003. I’m missing two 1964 and the year they offered a boat/ship. I can’t find them and I don’t know if I was given those years.

From 2001 until his death in 2003 he gave my two sons Hess trucks, two each, one to play with and one to collect. He even left money in his will so my mom could continue on getting them for my boys until 2010. She didn’t drive anymore after his death but she always made my aunt take her out to get the trucks on the first day they where available.

She made an event out of it. She would get them home and wrap them that day.

 

  From 2001 till 2011 I would drive to the very same station every year, fill up and get a truck for myself. The Hess truck release would signal the start of my Christmas shopping season for the wife and family.

 

I can’t imagine that getting them on line will be near as fun or evoke the same type of memories for my kids.

 

 To keep it train related I have used the Hess graphics from the boxes to make roadside signs on my layout

 

Just my two cents on the subject.

I guess who really cares could be said about trains, but ..............

There was buzz about Hess trucks in the car hobby in the eastern shows, for years, but no Hess stations in this area, so not part of my world.  Few models I saw were either "modern" or not O scale, I did not think?  That looks like a B-61 Mack, introduced in 1953 above..so too modern and this area is Hessless.  However, if they made earlier model trucks, in O scale? 

We don't have Marathon around here but didn't they offer a truck as well?

 

Jim McC

BluecometK....we also purchased two each year for my son; one to play with and the other was put away unopened as a collectible.  I don't know if they will ever be worth anything but we now have them from the last 15 years.  

Hess didn't make an O scale version, so I painted an Ertl for my layout

 

 

My wife is selling off her collection of Hess trucks. If you have a certain model you're interested in let me know.

Bob

I see Hess trucks often in the halls at York.

 

Ont Sou...When I was at TMT/Taylor Made Trucks, we did a plastic/HESS size Marathon Oil Tanker truck. It was offered only to Marathon credit cardholders. Came in a special box that was the copy of actual mural at Marathon headquarters.

 

Very hard to find this now.

 

Walter/RMT-D

I think they also made a Hess Tanker Ship one year.

I asked this on another thread...I haven't paid attention to them in some time, mainly possibly because Hess is not local, or the trucks were "modern", or the SCALE?

(probably the last two, as a desired vehicle can be repainted)

I seem to remember them as S scale, smaller than O, but...someone above mentioned

a larger scale...so..what scale are they, or do they bounce all over the map in size, as some produced vehicle models do, as though Minis and 18 wheelers all have to fit in

the same preprinted box?