UTZ 1:43 diecast truck!!/Updated, On layout

Definitely looks out of proportion.

 

 

 

 

You could Kit-"bash" it into a background building.

 

I like the UTZ truck. I used to live north of Reading PA so I am familiar with the UTZ brand name. 

Another that would be nice is A-Treat soda from Allentown PA.

 

Lee Fritz

I also like the truck and it looks good on the layout. The photo makes it look like it fits in. Keep it.

Don't you mean its closer to 1:40 scale instead of 1:53?  The lower the number the bigger it is right?

Visitors to York have seen Utz, even if we aren't nuts for Utz.  I do think it looks more

standard gauge or LGB, so I wouldn't use it on the layout.  It would appear some of

their drivers follow the "park it anywhere" mode that makes the nightly news here,

and I see no snow int RichO's posting.  What are they washing them down with?

I actually think it looks o.k. Granted the tires look a little bigger but not as out of whack as I was expecting. Do you have to place it immediately next to the pickup and car? Even moving it up the street a little so it is by itself would help. Nice truck! And 1:50 is actually smaller than 1:43. The higher the number the smaller the truck.

It may be a tiny bit big........but very close.....those box vans are BIG!

Toy level price die cast are often 'box scale' IE they are scaled to a uniform size box......making some small....some large.

I kinda like it.....but to modern for me!

That's a shame as it's really cool!

 

--Greg

Love Utz Snacks, from the Snack Capital of the World....Hanover, PA. If any of yinz vacation "down the shore" in Jersey....you can't miss the Utz family vacation "home'.....looks like an entire resort! Huge is not a good enough word for this palace! At any rate....the truck looks a tad big, but I'd use it somewhere......just sayin'.....

 

I think I would use it too, especially since you like it.  It seems, from reading many threads here, that a great many of us have a sort of loose variety of scales of vehicles in use.

Exploring the area around York, west of there on U.S. 30, on the way to Gettysburg in that row of little towns, Thomasville, New Oxford, etc.....Hanover is south of there..... there is a potato chip plant that I have passed many times (and can't remember if it is "Utz".....is it?)

I like the Utz truck a lot, but I'd love to have a Middleswarth one!

Very nice truck. I love Utz chips. 

I like UTZ products and the truck!

Neat little truck, I would love to have one on my layout if it was closer to 1:43 or 1:50.  I live only 35 miles from Hanover, so I to confess to have eaten lots of Utz chips and pretzels over the years!

 

Jim

  Winross released some Utz trucks.   Also released were Gibbles and Martin's Potato Chip trucks.

 

   One of the Winross Utz trucks was a Dodge Route Van.  I found this at an antique mall.

UTZ makes the best pretzel rods I have ever tasted, bar none! I have bought them by the plastic tubfull! YUM!

I placed it on the layout but not near other vehicles. Too big.

Spence - Great looking truck.  I can easily see why you are willing to accept it not being the perfect size.  I'm the same with Wonder Bread and Hostess Cake vehicles.  They are so hard to find, at least the ones that I want, that I am willing to fudge the size and location on the layout for them.

 

Art

I like the truck. Wish I could find a Gibbles truck for my layout.

Looks good Doug. I've never seen UTZ here around Houston Texas. Are the chips better than Lays?

 

Ron

The lower the number the larger the size. 

 

I would be interested in a Charles Chips truck. They did (and possibly do still) deliver chips in big tins to residential customers. My dad used to love having these delivered to us when I was a kid. I think he liked the name. The same as his.

Truck looks perfect, billboard is too small .  I use 1:43 exclusively with my 1:48 trains. Someone near me keeps his Utz truck in his driveway, they are big box vans!

 

Rich 

They don't deliver, but I found the chips for sale again in New Jersey.

 

 

 The truck is available in HO scale of course!

 "Question for railroaders" steam inspection cars."

Give a measurement of the truck and a picture of the box.

Bob

Spence---that is way cool.  What a great find.

Like it, Spence.

Charles Chips: I googled Charles Chips time back and someone is licesned to make them and are available mail order. Question do they taste the same as when they were delivered door to door????  When they delivered door to door they did have a tinplate Bank Truck that I used to have on my Lay-out. OK for Toy Train Lay-out, not HiRail Lay-out quality.

 

My younger son used to live in Hanover and he said Utz has three factories around the town.

 

To me the old Charles Chips were the greatest, now it's Herr's, Go to Notingham and take the factory tour and be given chips right off the belt out of the cooker, THEY ARE TO DIE FOR.

Charles Chips time back and someone is licesned to make them and are available mail order. Question do they taste the same as when they were delivered door to door?

I bought them in a deli.  Only two ingredients on the can- potatoes and cotton seed oil. Both of my teen kids were amazed at the taste.

Richo

You would be correct.  From route 30 at Cross Keys, take route 94 south into Hanover and the factory is on the left.

As a kid in the late 60's, we lived in Connecticut.  I remember getting milk delivered to the house as well as the large metal cans of Charles Chips! hmmmm

 

Interestingly, there is a small local dairy that delivers milk to our area, South Mountain Creamery. 

 

Circling back to Utz, they do sell tins online and they have a factory outlet store as part of the Hanover factory!

 

Jim

Nope, that is not what I have passed many times...which is on the north side of U.S.

30, itself...I will see it again if I make it to York...that plant sets a little off the

road, but it is not in Hanover, but on the way to Gettysburg.

My potato chip truck, which I remember from my childhood, was a red circa 1940

Chevrolet panel truck on the bag of Gordon's Potato Chips.  Took me this long to

recall that name...Gordon's...I well remembered the truck on the bag..

Colorado  Highrailer I think you are thinking of Martin's factory, not utz.

Utz Factory discussion in scenery forum with pictures.

 

Thanks...redball...my original question was: Is that an Utz plant on the north side

of 30?   It is not.  I see above that Martin's had a truck, too.  Ertl made a circa 1940

GM panel truck similar to that on the Gordon's bags, but I doubt if any are finished for

Gordon's, which demands a repaint and lettering.

Utz and Martin's chip plants in close proximity?  The Amish are growing potatoes?

It is a "fur piece" from Idaho, so I wonder what makes that area a potato chip center?

CBS just had a piece on this morning about food addictions, including chips.

I am used to out of proportion items, like the Lionel 128 newsstand. Even though items are out of scale there is always a place where they will look just fine, even if they have to be all alone somewhere. Still it is a very nice truck Spence.

Lee, an A-Treat truck would come with a big price these days as they closed their doors a few weeks ago. Great soda company. Word is that there may be an interested buyer. One can only hope.