The Wild Chinese car Museum near Beijing (many pics)

[RDMcG]

About 90 mins outside Beijing lies a very strange museum indeed. The hotel concierge had never heard of it, so I pulled up a pic of the exterior on my blackberry and we eventually figured out its location, in a semi-rural light industrial estate. Since China had no private vehicles from 1949 to the liberalization of its markets, it was hard to imagine what would be there. However, a retired construction entrepreneur managed to collect a huge fleet of official limos old Russian Zils, Chaikas and Moskvitches, rocket launchers, ex Nazi ww3 BMW motorbikes, some old American stuff, and a Rolls Royce once owned by Lenin ( not Lennon), who had a number of them. The place was utterly deserted except for an elderly lady who took my money ,and then I had the place to myself. Outside, a car was being repaired in the open ,and various cars and trucks were parked in various stages of dereliction. The descriptions are not translated, so you have to guess for yourself. Evidently I could not identify all of the cars or trucks.It will take me a while to upload this lot. Doubtless someone in PH will be able to identify the more obscure cars:


Lenin's Ghost



Chou en Lai's limo....















Zis




Think this is a Chaika

[RDMcG]

Mysteries to me



Studebaker??


Moskvitch

[RDMcG]

[RDMcG]

[Papa Hotel]

Can't help with identification but great pics, what a place

[RDMcG]

The Crack Fox said:

Wow, great place ! Is that blue thing a Tatra ? Can't identify much else !

Nope. not a Tatra. There is a very unusual Skoda down in the military museum in Beijing but none here.

[miniman]

What a fantastic collection.

[pbickerd]

Really interesting to see so many obscure cars. Looks like a fascinating place. Thanks for posting.

[g3org3y]

Very interesting Thanks for sharing

[king arthur]

Fascinating.

[RDMcG]

miniman said:

What a fantastic collection.

They have some strange museums there off the beaten track...the Rail Museum os also good, with locomotives made in wartime Japan, UK, US, Belgium and Russia..they got them from everywhere....

[Harrytsg]

Congratulations on managing so many pictures, it must have been hell getting clear shots through all them crowds.......

[anonymous-user]

I think some Volga's, looks like a winged badge...

definitely some Gaz..

Citroen 2cv

and Chaika ( v shape on grill)

I would say 90 percent looks soviet..

most of the trucks outside are ZiS-150B with slated grill,..

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[anonymous-user]

liking the extra long limo!

[marcosgt]

RDMcG said:

Mysteries to me

Next version of the Panamera?

M.

[RDMcG]

black pipebandit said:

I think some Volga's, looks like a winged badge...

Possible a Gaz..

There were certainly some Gaz military and quite possibly some of the saloons....here is a Gaz I saw in Moscow a few years ago. It was very unusual to see one still on the road

[anonymous-user]

RDMcG said:

There were certainly some Gaz military and quite possibly some of the saloons....here is a Gaz I saw in Moscow a few years ago. It was very unusual to see one still on the road

I like them..

you can any colour as long as it is black...

[Flat_Steve]

Nice find and great pics, thanks for sharing it with us. Pity it's so quiet and unpopular, places like this need to be preserved.

[nouze]

The blue one is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Warszawa
which was a licensed version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ-M20_Pobeda

RDMcG said:

[bumblepup]

Fantastic, the limo is something else!!