Up Close With China¡¯s Hongqi Cars

[Randy W]

from Jalopnik

 

Up Close With China’s Beautiful, Strange and Almost Never Seen Presidential Cars

 

 

 

 

 

But two rolled into the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this year, the first Chinese cars in America’s most prestigious show. And they are fascinating.

 

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The Sanhe Classic Car Museum in Chengdu brought out these two Hongqis, representing the first and second model Hongqi made. The early car is a 1965 Hongqi CA72 and the second is a 1974 Hongqi CA770.

 

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The CA770 has been in the States for about a year now at the Blackhawk Collection. The CA72 here lives in China and its caretakers claim it’s the first of its kind to visit the U.S.