Fordbarn available in China

mhsprecher

mhsprecher

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You can't get Facebook, Google and some news sites in China, but Fordbarn is available. In Beijing now, but heading to Wuhan. I have never seen an antique car here. This is my fourth trip in 9 years.
 
I'm surprised that it can get through the great fire wall of China. We have been trying to get our software to work there for two years but any part of it tied to Google won't function, it is social media that is filtered the heaviest.
 
There is a museum west of Beijing---I didn't get to go, it has a collection of the large goverment limos that china made and some other cars ----if you are going north through Harbin I can get you directions to a good back street resturaunt with heated seats
Last time I was in china I used the fordbarn message system to keep in touch with home
 
Several years ago the joke of the day at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing was when I asked if there were any car shows on the weekend ! I figured if they had a McDonalds Restaurant, why not a car show ( all I wanted wad a Chinese license plate ) ! never asked again. Wayne
 
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forever4 said:
The museum is owned by Luo Wenyou.
I first visited him about 2008 I think, before the museum was opened. It is a very nice collection. His daughter Maggie works in Washington DC.

Luo Wenyou
Beijing Lao Ye Che Bo Wu Guan
Huairou Yangsong Feng Xiang Yi Yuan 19 Hao, Beijing, China 101400
（中国北京市怀柔区杨宋镇凤翔一园19号
北京老爷车博物馆，
邮编：101400）

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Notice the lavish surroundings, fancy hubcaps and all the shiney chrome ( lol ) !
Wayne
 
. I have never seen an antique car here

dont think there is a big interest in China for antique cars..............
they like all things expensive and new!

Ferrari, Tesla and Porsche come to mind!
 
My '48 was originally delivered from Edgewater plant (where Ford built most export cars) to Shanghai Ford...I don't know anything about Ford China but this was during the civil war and I doubt that there was anything like assembly. I think the car simply arrived in a crate. It's not an antique in China because we took it out with us and I still have it...
War lord times followed by WWII and Japanese occupation followed by the revolution probably did not leave much of anything intact. I gather from my parents stories that most of the cars in the '48 period were American jeeps, many of them in Chinese hands as military and government aid after the war...those would mostly have ended up as part of Mao's fleet by 1950.
 
ronn said:
. I have never seen an antique car here

dont think there is a big interest in China for antique cars..............
they like all things expensive and new!

Ferrari, Tesla and Porsche come to mind!
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Where? My car at the Embassy was a bare bones bottom of the line Ford! Wayne
 
forever4 said:
I lived in China for five years, and never experienced any internet problem personally. No VPN required. Google US and Hongkong worked fine. The only things blocked were Youtube, Facebook, and **** type sites, three things I don't use anyway. Fordbarn always worked fine. I also built my Ford Garage website while I lived in China.
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It has all changed Google pulled out of China a few years ago but are in talks to go back but I'm not holding my breath . we are able to get it in through a VPN but they are starting to crack down on that in the last four months. Until there is some deal with Google we are not pursuing it anymore.

Google pulled out due to censorship issues and rig
 
I do not know about in the US but here when a classic/vintage car get sold here for really big $ it is send to China
Most of their shows for want of a better word are closed to the public type deals I have seen photos of some and the cars would be right at home at pebble beach
when a chinese billionaire want the best that is what he gets
 
Jeff/Illinois said:
We could learn from the Chinese and block **** anyway. No need for that crap at least they are protecting their people.[/QUOTe

They are not protecting them they are controling them that is why we have a Constitution I can't believe with all the wars and deaths to protect it that you support censorship which is the e act reason Google pulled out of China.
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Yes, no Gmail in China, as I just learned. I can't get the New York Times, either, but the Washington Post web site works.

True that little likely survived the post WWII period. I will keep my eyes open, though.

I won't be in Beijing or near Shanghai, either. I will get to drive here, which will be a first.

A guy next to me on the flight is visiting a friend who is an engineer with Ford and runs the plant here near Shanghai.
 
In China they want capitalism for the rich and powerful and communism/socialism and disempowerment for the poor and classless.
I hesitate to use the word socialism since I personally don't think China is that advanced, probably a better word would be brutalism.

Govt's need people to work and too many affluent/educated people diminishes the work force base.
A large work force helps keep wages down due to competition for jobs.
The Chinese are into olds car parts not old cars, we see the results of this each time we go to purchase parts.
That is why America needs Cuba as a near source of cheap labour amongst other reasons.
The world is quickly running out of impoverished countries with people than can be used as cheap labour.
Capitalism is feeling the pinch also, since you can only value add so much and once the 3rd world labour force is gone what are we left with.
That is the time when we will really see which of these over paid CEO's and Company Presidents are really worth what they are being paid...
 
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