WIKING founder Fritz Peltzer already had a good reason for adding the first-generation Opel Blitz as a classic to the selection in the seventies. The Blitz bonnet truck was considered an all-purpose truck not only during the war years, but also in the years that followed. Without the Opel Blitz from the war years, reconstruction after the war would have become more gruelling. After all, many hundreds of vehicles from Wehrmacht stocks had survived the years and came to new honours in a new design. The flatbed lorry was revered as reliable, especially since spare parts were still readily available.

Driver's cab and flatbed fern blue. Wheel rims, chassis with cardan part and rear fenders trailer black-blue. Radiator grille with Blitz logo and Opel lettering painted silver. Front grille bars in black. Tail lights imprinted carmine red. Headlamps hand-painted in silver.