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Show Contest Winner "Brands" His Prize i :- W V? " i Viiuiiiii iiiiiliTniWN I r mmm Mm 'jit A pioneer of the auto uuluitry, hunted throughout the nation in a contest to discover the oldest Chevrolet truck in America, turned up, appropriately, in the possession of a Montana homesteader. The venerable vehicle, vintage of 1918, was still serving Rancher Leslie A. Storey, of Jordan, Mont., whose ranch lies 18 miles from a typical "last frontier" town. The award for owning the oldest licensed and operating truck was a new Chevrolet "advance-design" model, which Storey "brands" here with his distinctive Circle-Heart brand. It was presented to him by J. W. Burke, manager of Chevrolet's truck department, as Mrs. Storey and Montana cowgirl Merle Spears (right) look on. Nearly 7,000 old-time Chevrolet trucks were entered in the contest won by this vehicle, which was one of 384 built by the division in 1418, its first year of truck production. |