1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Woodie Station Wagon Como Blue with Black Top Limited Edition to 240 pieces Worldwide 1/43 Model Car by Goldvarg Collectio
Brand new 1/43 scale car model of 1948 Chevrolet Fleetmaster Woodie Station Wagon Como Blue with Black Top Limited Edition to 240 pieces Worldwide model car by Goldvarg Collection. Brand new box. Real rubber tires. Officially licensed product. Highly detailed interior exterior. Comes in plastic display showcase. Dimensions approximately L-4.75 inches long. This model is made of resin and does not have any openings. Louis Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the company on November 3 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2 1918 and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durants second ousting in 1919 Alfred Sloan with his maxim "a car for every purse and purpose" would pick the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors family selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Fords Model T in 1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929. The Chevrolet bowtie logo was introduced by company co-founder William C. Durant in late 1913. According to an official company publication titled The Chevrolet Story of 1961 the logo originated in Durants imagination when as a world traveler in 1908 he saw the pattern marching off into infinity as a design on wallpaper in a French hotel. He tore off a piece of the Sport Wallpapers and kept it to show friends with the thought that it would make a good nameplate for a car. However in an interview with Durants widow Catherine published in a 1986 issue of Chevrolet Pro Management Magazine Catherine recalled how she and her husband were on holiday in Hot Springs Virginia in 1912. While reading a newspaper in their hotel room Durant spotted a design and exclaimed "I think this would be a very goo