Shanghai Auto Works produced their first Fenghuang prototype in September 1958, this is your number 1 vehicle. The body was based on a Plymouth of 1956, the platform was from a Polish Warszawa sedan, the engine was made in Nanjing and was a copy of a Russian Pobeida engine. Only one unit was made.
Number 2 prototype had double headlights and was probably powered by a V8 engine developing 150 hp. Except for the front the bodywork resembles the number 1 model. The car was introduced in January 1959 and there was only one made.
Number 3 prototype was resembling the later Shanghai SH760 sedan, but had a different grille which looks like an embossed iron plate.
Number 4 is a production version, quite the same as the Shanghai SH760, with some minor differences, like the Phoenix bird on the bonnet. In November 1960 the first batch of 13 units was made. From 1960-1963 77 cars were made.
Your second photo shows a terrible made copy of the number 1 car (in fact this is a Russian Wolga, which has been 'Chinesed' , its is visible in a traffic exhibition on the main floor of the Shanghai Television Tower. In the SAIC headquarters there is another copy of the number 1 car, as the original was lost.
You can find all of them and a lot more in my historical document "Shanghai, saloons from the artisan era", see my website: http://www.chinesecars.net/index.php?page=4
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Number 2 prototype had double headlights and was probably powered by a V8 engine developing 150 hp. Except for the front the bodywork resembles the number 1 model. The car was introduced in January 1959 and there was only one made.
Number 3 prototype was resembling the later Shanghai SH760 sedan, but had a different grille which looks like an embossed iron plate.
Number 4 is a production version, quite the same as the Shanghai SH760, with some minor differences, like the Phoenix bird on the bonnet. In November 1960 the first batch of 13 units was made. From 1960-1963 77 cars were made.
Your second photo shows a terrible made copy of the number 1 car (in fact this is a Russian Wolga, which has been 'Chinesed' , its is visible in a traffic exhibition on the main floor of the Shanghai Television Tower. In the SAIC headquarters there is another copy of the number 1 car, as the original was lost.
You can find all of them and a lot more in my historical document "Shanghai, saloons from the artisan era", see my website: http://www.chinesecars.net/index.php?page=4
greetings
That's great! Thanks. By the way, the unentified truck 2 seems to me to be an old Mitsubishi Fuso bonnet truck of the 60's or 70's, an evolution of the M-F T330.
