STP Haiti Hand Crafted Primitive Decorative Painted Wood Truck

Hand Crafted Primitive Decorative Yellow Painted Wooden Truck
STP Haiti
Jacmel
Jesus Seul
VERY GOOD CONDITION

This truck is definitely meant to be a decorative piece of primitive artwork, as it's too roughly made to be a toy.

The bright yellow hand made truck, with its festive red, white, green, and blue flowers, zigzags, and stripes, creates a wonderful naive art piece of what we assume is a vegetable truck. The wooden wheels that easily turn are painted black with a red rim and yellow hubcaps.

The writing on the truck - STP Haiti on the back bumper - Jesus Seul (Jesus Only) at the top in back - and Jacmel on the front above the windshield hole - tell the story of this truck. Based on everything we were able to research, we are putting a 2010 or 2011 date on this vehicle.

STP stands for "Serving The Purpose", a Mission Emphasis for the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Jacmel is a city in southern Haiti, which was badly damaged by the major 2010 earthquake in Haiti and has also felt the force of a barrange of hurricanes over the years. I was not able to determine exactly how this truck is connected to this mission effort.

Perhaps it was a "Thank You" gift from a Haitian craftsman to one of the church group volunteers who came to help the survivors of the earthquake destruction.

The truck is 10 1/2 inches long, 5 inches wide, and 9 inches tall.

As the photos show, this truck does not stand exactly square, giving it a jalopy look. There is some paint loss where the back wheels have rubbed against the body, and a few places where the yellow paint was not applied thickly enough, but otherwise it appears to be in excellent condition.