{"id":1033,"date":"2014-02-03T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hesstoystore.com\/?page_id=1033"},"modified":"2015-08-22T14:43:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T21:43:48","slug":"1970-71-hess-fire-truck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/hess-trucks\/hess-trucks-1970s-detail\/1970-71-hess-fire-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"1970-71 Hess Fire Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"1970-71 Hess Toy Fire Truck\" href=\"http:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/product\/1970-71-hess-toy-fire-truck\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8141 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hess-1970-71-S1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hess-1970-71-S1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hess-1970-71-S1-190x67.jpg 190w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hess-1970-71-S1-150x53.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hess-1970-71-S1-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Inspiration for the 1970-71 Hess Fire Truck came from the real fire engines that were stationed at the company\u2019s Port Reading Refinery located in Perth Amboy and Woodbridge, NJ. \u00a0Noted for its brilliant red color, this outstanding model featured a swiveling water cannon and had two detachable rubber hoses on one side with a ladder attached on the opposite side. On the cab it had a rotating lighting dome.\u00a0 Only 300,000 of these were manufactured and are considered one of the more dramatic detailed toys from the early Hess Collection.\u00a0 The 1971 truck was the same as the 1970 toy with the only exception being the box.\u00a0 When Hess ran out of the boxes with the graphics, they had to improvise in order to get them out in time for the holidays, so they sent plain white boxes along with a \u2018seasons greetings\u2019 sticker that the service station attendants were to apply when they arrived for sale.\u00a0 Of course this anomaly has made the 1971 \u2018Seasons Greeting\u2019 plain box toy extremely rare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/product\/1970-71-hess-toy-fire-truck\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8264\" src=\"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hess-Buy-Now.jpg\" alt=\"Hess-Buy-Now\" width=\"100\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hess-Buy-Now.jpg 188w, https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Hess-Buy-Now-147x150.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration for the 1970-71 Hess Fire Truck came from the real fire engines that were stationed at the company\u2019s Port Reading Refinery located in Perth Amboy and Woodbridge, NJ. \u00a0Noted for its brilliant red color, this outstanding model featured a swiveling water cannon and had two detachable rubber hoses on one side with a ladder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1004,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with_sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1033","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackiestoystore.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}