Everyone can spread their own information and record their own history.
So, collecting your favorite antique cars and building a private museum is to write your own private history of a car?
Between the main entrance of Dalian Vintage Automobile Museum and the former site of Kwantung Army Command, there is a low tree and criss-crossing roads.
It is said that the luxurious extended Cadillac presented to Foreign Minister Huang Hua during Nixon's visit to China and the military parade in Deng Xiaoping was taken away? Red flag CA770, Zhou Enlai received the convertible Shanghai Phoenix sedan used by Sihanouk and Kim Il Sung, Brezhnev's seagull sedan, and the Cadillac given to his mother by Elvis Presley. ...
You can see these special cars that witness the times here.
Seeing things and knowing people, just looking at the collectors' exhibits seems to be a private biographical catalogue of the development history of China's automobile industry, and we can roughly guess how the chapters will be set up.
Liu Xiangyang, the founder of Dalian Classic Car Museum, is from Jinzhou, Dalian. At first, he liked to collect antiques, clocks, temples and other folk works of art.
After the reform and opening up, he made a fortune in decoration and environmental design and accumulated the "first bucket of gold".
1980, Liu Xiangyang accidentally discovered an obsolete 195 1 Chevrolet.
Although extremely shabby, he couldn't put it down. He bought it at a high price of 5000 yuan at that time, spent half of his family's possessions and harvested the first collection in his collection career.
Jin Jiaqing, the current curator of the museum, is about my age and drives a pure white Cadillac Fleetwood? Brougham, when asked which of the hundreds of collections and exhibits are "treasures of the town hall", Jin Jiaqing gave me a finger, just like several treasures.
As expected, he mentioned the "big red flag" first.
After 1958 copied CA72, Hongqi ushered in the peak work-1965 three rows of CA770.
Under the national conditions of "having China characteristics", Bentley or Rolls-Royce can only show purchasing power at most, and as a senior state guest car and the top leader's car to inspect the three armed forces, the red flag is the real status symbol.
The significance of CA770 to China automobile industry is that it is the first limousine designed and manufactured according to modern industrial design process.
The CA770 convertible review car in the collection is said to be the car that Deng Xiaoping took when he reviewed the exercise troops in 198 1, with a total length of 6 meters and a model of 1968. It was specially made for the military parade of national leaders. There are 7 cars produced by * * *, and only one car has been found in China.
There is a history behind this extraordinary CA770.
In 2002, Liu Xiangyang was on a business trip and passed by a remote village. Under the cover of weeds more than 1 m high, he found this dazzling red flag.
The scene can be called "tragic". Only the rusty body and engine are left in the whole car, and the interior and instruments are gone. The only usable tire was removed by the old farmer and put on the carriage for "waste utilization".
Local farmers don't know the origin of this red flag, because its convertible design is mistaken for "a car with a bucket" and "a car pulling goods", and the dismantled body is thrown in the open air, and the body is covered with weeds, which looks "gratifying".
After consulting with the old farmer, 3 tons of multiple red flags changed hands at the price of scrap iron, and Liu Xiangyang paid the old farmer 8,000 yuan at the price of 2,000 yuan at that time.
The farmer was very satisfied, and Liu Xiangyang was even more flattered, and the transaction was declared a win-win situation.
Collecting used cars is not an easy task.
Since it is an "old car", few cars are still intact, and "missing arms and legs" are everywhere.
What's more, as the models exit the historical stage, their maintenance parts are nowhere to be found in the market.
In order to restore the "junk" of scrap iron, Liu Xiangyang simply organized a professional repair shop.
He looked for information, images and data of that year as a reference. On the basis of the original car being damaged and shapeless, he built the car body and all the accessories in a workshop-style original way based on the principle of repairing the old as the old.
It took five experienced masters a whole year to restore this "national treasure" to its original appearance.
By the way, isn't this the Coach Building abroad?
The CA-770 convertible inspection vehicle in the collection was produced in the 1960s, and it is a special vehicle inspected and manufactured by state leaders.
At that time, only seven vehicles were produced, and at present, only one vehicle has been found in China.
It is 6 meters long, * * * has three rows of chairs, the middle row can be folded, and the interior is carved walnut, red leather chair and red carpet; Equipped with Mercedes V8 engine, double brake pumps and double insurance; Anti-corrosion treatment of tin hanging on the whole vehicle.
Early red-flag cars were usually named in the format of CA-XXX. Take CA-770 as an example: "C" stands for China; "A" stands for First Automobile Factory; The first "7": represents the fixed number of the model at that time; The second "7" indicates that this model is a 7-seat car; "0": represents the basic model of the car.
The original site of Dalian Vintage Automobile Museum is a Russian building built at 1900. It used to be a Russian Lushun experimental school. 1905 became the meeting place of Japanese distribution schools; 1945, the Soviet red army set up a trophy exhibition hall here; 1955 The People's Liberation Army took over Lushun, and the first military museum in New China was established here. On May 25th, 1977, the exhibits were handed over to China People's Revolutionary Military Museum, Beijing.
The museum has a total exhibition area of 6.5438+0.5 million square meters, including an exhibition hall area of 5,000 square meters, which consists of 7 exhibition halls.
According to the museum, Dalian Classic Car Museum is the first classic car museum in China.
The collection of classic cars and motorcycles ranks first in China and second in the world, second only to the American Black Hawk Classic Car Museum.
There are more than 600 vehicles (parts) in seven categories, such as automobiles, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles, automobile tools and automobile models, and there are more than 300 vehicles in only two categories.
According to reports, the current value of this collection is over 100 million.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.