Can anyone identify this classic truck?

[Laurence Finston]

Can anyone identify the truck in these photos? https://www.papermodelers.com/forum/771503-post27.html

Thanks!

[CharlieC]

The US car and truck manufacturer Chevrolet used a fleur-de-lys as a trademark. The first Chevy trucks were the Model 490 and Model T from 1918.

A website a search produced said that the first Chevrolet trucks were supplied as a chassis, engine, transmission, wheels and suspension, fenders and radiator cowl - it was up to the purchaser to organise the body they wanted.

Regards,

Charlie

[Viator]

On the photo images there is a modern copy of Fleur-de-Lys, built in 1978 for the beer vendor Einbecker in Göttingen. See the blog at https://einbecker.blog/tag/oldtimer/ , post September 4th, 2017 https://einbecker.blog/2017/09/04/bo...ger-beim-ball/ (see auto-translation from GER to ENG in the attached image).

[Laurence Finston]

Thank you both very much! Too bad it's not original.

[Viator]

Well, you can call it original because these olditimers are still being produced by the factory, so all they could be classified as orignal cars, although they are not really vintage.

[Laurence Finston]

Now I see what you mean. I didn't have time to read the ad before. I liked it better when I thought it was a vintage car. Oh, well. It's still nice in its way. Wouldn't make a model of it, though.

[whulsey]

Glad that got answered since I was making myself crazy going through all my references trying to find a match. Closest I came up with was a 30's MAN.

[Laurence Finston]

A MAN might well have been the inspiration, since it's a German company. I could write to the brewery and ask --- that probably would have been the easiest thing to do in the first place! Still, it's always nice to have something to puzzle over.