During this year's "May Day" holiday, 10 classic and antique cars from the Shanghai Automobile Museum, including the 1974 Hongqi CA770, the 1948 Chrysler and the 1967 Alfa Romeo, will form a parade team to carry out parade activities in the core area of Jiading New Town, Jiabei Country Park, and key villages for rural tourism. To make these antique cars "run", it is inseparable from the care and maintenance of the professional team, let's take a look~
On April 17, in the maintenance studio of the Shanghai Automobile Museum, Xiao Jia saw that Hu Huigang, a Shanghai craftsman and manager of the collection of cars of the Shanghai Automobile Museum, was maintaining and maintaining the 1974 Hongqi CA770 car. Hu Huigang introduced while tightening the screws that most of the antique cars like Hongqi use metal parts, which will oxidize internally after a long time, producing a lot of iron filings and iron dust. "The fuel tank, the pipes, the muffler, every part of the vehicle from start to tail, we have to do a thorough repair and maintenance to ensure the safety and stability of the cruising vehicle. Hu Huigang said.
Hu Hui has been engaged in car maintenance for 28 years since 1996. In 2007, Hu Hui first came to the Shanghai Automobile Museum to be responsible for vehicle maintenance and management. He told Xiao Jia that repairing and maintaining antique cars is like repairing cultural relics, repairing the old as before, ensuring that each car is restored to the factory appearance of the year, and every step must be carefully refreshed, "The important thing to repair a classic car is to repair rather than replace, and each part must be disassembled until the screws are thoroughly cleaned and repaired before assembly." ”
1974 Hongqi CA770
Hu Huigang introduced that the maintenance of antique cars in the museum is divided into full warranty and semi-insurance, the full warranty is to clean, wax, polish the vehicle every three months, and the semi-insurance is to replace the type of vehicle oil and water and antifreeze paint every six months or a year. In Hu Huigang's view, it is a great sense of accomplishment to restore the state of the antique car closest to the factory through his own hands.
"At present, 10 cruising classic cars have been basically maintained, and have undergone internal commissioning and road tests. We have also trained a number of professional drivers to drive the vehicle to ensure safety during the cruise. Hu Huigang said, "Before the cruise, each car should be waxed, which can effectively prolong the time of damage and oxidation of antique cars." ”
Chrysler, 1948
Alfa Romeo, 1967
It is reported that since the Shanghai Automobile Museum launched the antique car parade project in 2017, it has been deeply loved by the majority of tourists. It is worth mentioning that the 1948 Chrysler and the 1967 Alfa Romeo are all vehicles that have not been exhibited in the parade in recent years, and they will be "re-unveiled" during the festival. "During the Auto Culture Festival, the general public and car enthusiasts are welcome to get close to these classic cars from all over the world and feel the charm of antique classic cars!" said Zhang Min, director of the antique car parade project.
Correspondent: Jiang Yichao
Editors: Tang Min, Yang Yujie