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Welcome to Black License Plate Mania In Beijing Part 2 (Part 1 here), where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. Also see this tag for more detailed reviews of other black-plated vehicles. On the first picture a Shanghai-GM Buick Lacrosse with 京A·31029.
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When still in China, I loved to go to police equipment shows to check out new police cars. But whereas I was there just for fun, there were also real coppers shopping for new wheels for their department, and those coppers came by police cars.
So today we have a flock of real police cars on the police car show, with white police car license plates. This was in 2013. We start with this very pretty Beijing-Jeep Grand Cherokee police car, with the characters Jingcha (police) on the bonnet and the characters Sifa (judicature, for the Ministry of Justice) on the rear doors.
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And on that day in 2003, I went to an old housing complex in Beijing. It is very beautiful and fully accessible, but tourists have never found out about it, and as far as I know, the place still exists. Luckily, I saw some great cars.
Continue reading “A Fiery Red Pontiac Firebird And Some Other Great Cars In Beijing”
Back into July 2003 I went to the great Goldenport circuit in northeast Beijing to see some speedy racing. In those days, the track wasn’t in a very good shape but the atmosphere was fantastic. Lots of on and off track action below, with fast cars, cool cars, and some babes.
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A Volkswagen Passat Lingyu police car on the 2010 China International Exhibition on Police Equipment (CIEPE), held in the beautiful Beijing Exhibition Center in northwest Beijing. Sadly, the show has since moved to the less pretty China National Convention Center.
The show was about all sorts of police equipment, ranging from guns to uniforms to surveillance cameras. Great fun. But even better were the police cars, displayed by car makers hoping for a deal with the cops. Some of these cars did eventually make it into real police cars; others didn’t. The Passat Lingyu, like the Passats before it, would have a long police career. Continue reading “Shopping For A Police Car In China”
Welcome to Black License Plate Mania In Beijing, where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. On the first picture the famous Jaguar XJ12 with 京A·03333.
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Welcome to Black License Plate Mania In Beijing, where we look at cars with black license plates in the Chinese capital. Also see this tag for more detailed reviews of other black-plated vehicles. On the first picture a Beijing-Jeep Cherokee BJ6420 2.3 E with 京A·25626.
Continue reading “Black License Plate Mania In Beijing Part 1”
In September 2017, I found a very strange car collection, standing on the roof of a building in an old area in northeast Beijing. The building and cars were sadly in a bad shape.
Continue reading “The Story Of The Rooftop Car Collection In Beijing”
The Fortune Mall is a high-end shopping mall/office tower/apartment building in Beijing. There is a small pink-colored area with rare and high-end cars on B3. I went down there to take a look. Starting with a white Rolls-Royce Dawn with a wine-red top.
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The Kunlun Hotel in Beijing is a good place to check out some proper metal. I went there on a sunny spring day and found a great deal of wheels, starting with this Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe.
