White, Green, and White, Mark VIII's

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I finally got a chance to clean them all today.:D
 

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Should go to a Hess station and take a pic, do they have them out there? Or tailgate at a Jets game. :cool:
 
Thanks guys!

I'd like to take them to the park for some photos but I need to get 2 more drivers.:)

We don't have Hess gas stations here, how are they different than say a Shell or Sinclair station?
 
Thanks guys!

I'd like to take them to the park for some photos but I need to get 2 more drivers.:)

We don't have Hess gas stations here, how are they different than say a Shell or Sinclair station?

Yea, they are different and their Christmas toy trucks are collectible too. Leon Hess became a owner of the Jets NFL team, both the company and the team have the white with green colors.


The Hess Corporation (formerly Amerada Hess) is an integrated oil company based in New York City. The company explores, produces, transports, and refines crude oil and natural gas. Vertically completing the logistical chain, about 1,360 Hess branded filling stations market gasoline to consumers in 16 states along the East Coast of the United States. The Hovensa refinery in the United States Virgin Islands, a joint venture between a subsidiary of Hess Corporation and a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), is one of the largest crude oil refineries in the world. Refined petroleum products, as well as natural gas and electricity, are marketed to customers throughout the East Coast of the United States. Although towered over in size by enormous global players in the same industry, Hess placed #55 in the 2009 Fortune 500 rankings.

The company has exploration and production operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Equatorial Guinea, Algeria, Libya, Gabon, Egypt, Ghana, the Joint Development Area of Malaysia and Thailand, Indonesia, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Australia, Brazil, and St. Lucia.

Leon Hess became well-known for his Hess Corporation gas stations; however, he also played an instrumental part in the development of the Jets during his tenure as co-owner and eventual sole owner. Hess had often fought for improvements while the team was a tenant at Shea Stadium but generally stayed away from football operations, allowing his coaches and general manager to make football-related decisions.[25]

Becoming the team's majority stockholder in 1973, Hess bought Philip H. Iselin's share upon his death in 1976 after which only two of Hess' partners remained, Townsend Martin and Helen Dillon, who had inherited the stake from her father Donald Lillis, one of the original five owners, upon his death.[26] Hess began to buyout his partners in 1981 when he bought Martin's 25% stake for $5 million.[27] Hess bought Dillon's stake three years later for another $5 million, acquiring sole control of the team.[27]

Hess had a passion for his team and took losses hard.[25] In 1995, following a mediocre 6–10 season under Pete Carroll, despite generally shying away from football operations, Hess announced "I'm 80 years old, I want results now" during a conference in which Rich Kotite was introduced as the team's new coach.[25] After two unsuccessful years with Kotite, Hess heavily involved himself in hiring Bill Parcells in hopes to see his team again reach the Super Bowl.[25] He did not live to see his dream realized as he died on May 7, 1999.[25]
 
Oh OK, it's the whaie and green.:)

My dad always buys those Hess toy trucks for his grand kids for Christmas. They are nice, I always "show the kids" how to play with them.:D
 
nice cars bill, i can say ive honestly never seen a green mark viii, i usually don't like green but that 94 looks really good in that color. my grandparents buy me hess trucks for xmas every year, supposedly when theyre old in years to come, they'll be worth somethin :)
 
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