Today's car of the day is Matchbox Real Working Rigs' 2009 Oshkosh P-Series Snow Plow.
Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK), formerly Oshkosh Truck, designs and builds specialty trucks and truck bodies and access equipment. Based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the company employs 12,300 people around the world. It is organized in four primary business groups: access equipment, defense, fire and emergency, and commercial.
For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Oshkosh
Thankfully, we haven't needed the snow plows this winter in my neck of the woods. The temperature here is expected to be in the upper 60s with a chance of breaking into the 70s today. In March. In Pennsylvania. Our biggest snowfall? We got five inches on October 29th. It had melted by November 1st!
Founded in 1917 as the Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company, the company was created to build a severe-duty four-wheel-drive truck. After the first prototype was built, the company began to develop rapidly. This first four-wheel-drive truck, known today as "Old Betsy", is still owned by Oshkosh Corporation and housed in one of its assembly plants in Oshkosh. The vehicle still runs and is used frequently in demonstrations and parades.
WOW! now that's what I'm talking about when I say that matchbox makes way more realistic diecast toy cars than hot wheels - as I've pointed out in my Matchbox vs Hot Wheels vs Majorette Toy Cars article
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