Auto museum in China?

mrsbojigger
mrsbojigger Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
Got a strange e-mail from someone asking me about contributing to a car museum in China. Has any of you received similar messages? Asking me for technical advice is like giving a 2-year old a loaded gun. No telling when and which direction it will go off. Probably someone phishing!
Peace,
Chaz

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Yeah i got one too, i didnt respond, sort of strange though.....
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Sounds like yet another scam. The Chinese opening a car museum, touting one of the top symbols of capitalist society. Don't see that happening anytime soon.
  • Richard E.
    Richard E. Senior Contributor
    I haven't seen this email, but as a retired museum director I must report that China has some outstanding museum and probably has some pretty interesting vehicles. I understand that Hudson shipped a half track Terraplane to Japan in the 1930's for use in their Shanghi campaign. It would be interesting to see that turn up in a Chinese auto museum. I would be interested in what is being proposed??
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I received same email. Went to the site and it actually looks ok. The cars there are pretty interesting. I sent him some email saying put english titles on the cars. They have a lot of Cadillacs over there and the super long limo with the fridge and what looks like full size air conditioner and full size couch is cool as is the yellow valve covers and aircleaner on the engine.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I got the same message and have checked out the site http://www.cnclassiccar.com/EG/home.htm From what I can gather, he is looking for help, guidance and to network with others in the hobby. He never mentions cash or monetary contributions in the email. Perhaps some of us are scam paranoid, but who knows, maybe that comes later. That being said, they do have cars in China you know. About a zillon of them. Lets not forget the fact that China has the fastest growing economy in the world. The fact that they are starting a classic car club, museum or whatever is not surprising and pretty cool. Most people who never had much knowledge of life outside China now have computers, the internet and access to tons of information that used to be off limits (yes, they still censor quite a bit). My point is, so many in China are just now being exposed to American classics. I see a big boom on the horizon for classic car hobby and even cars being shipped over there. Maybe we will we see them lined up at Hershey and other places the way the Japaense were back when their econonmy was booming. Who knows. I dont know what my point is anymore. I will shut up now........
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Thanks for your concern! we are a new comer in this field,you konw the history of motor industry is short in china.So,the museum of cars is our new project,it will be completed in october,but we don't rich in experience and will need more classic cars.Maybe we can be as partner in the future.So,we need your supports.we'll hold many anctivities all around china in the future.If you meet our requirements,We'd like to invite you if you love to.
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    At the risk of sounding xenophobic I have very mixed feelings about American classic cars being exported to China and elsewhere in the world. On the one hand it's nice if they get restored especially if no one is America is restoring them. On the other hand they're part of American historical and cultural heritage of the 20th century. They point to a time when America actually MADE THINGS. Now we don't make anything (except enemies)....we have a huge trade deficit because of our so-called "service economy" even though as I'm sure all of you know you can't really get good service here until you enter in your 40-digit pin code to the computer on the other end of the phone. We export raw materials and import finished ones leaving us perpetually in trade debt. Most of our country's machine tooling went to China in fact. I have nothing at all against the Chinese I'm happy to help with historical preservation... what do I lament is we don't care so much about our own history. Most of us preserve it only through our own individual efforts. My 2 cents (still I hope for a silver lining)
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    IMHO, The world is ever changing and is getting smaller with technology. I'm glad the Chinese would be reaching out to know our cars and culture. It can only help both countries. There are plenty of classic cars out there to be exported to a museum here and there. The US is still a free country and supply and demand rules. Niels



    P.S. Our enemies are simply jealous. That will never go away until they get educated and start sampling what makes this country great. Now.... back to Hudsons...
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    I got the same email, checked out their website, which appears genuine. One observation - all the cars appear to be black! Regarding shipping stuff overseas - it's a two-way trade, so please consider us peasants on the underside of the world who need to keep our Hudsons running. I have sent stuff from here to U.S. to help people out as well, as we have quite a bit of older stuff still around. It peeves me no end to see "Will only ship to U.S." on an ebay item I would like to bid on. We are living in a global economy, and this includes our old cars and parts.

    Geoff, N.Z.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I am not planning to support the museum. The Chinese are not our friends, by any stretch of the imagination. They like our dollars and our resources, and our consumers like the cheap garbage they produce.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Different person hve different ideas!

    But you should to learn that China is a great country now.

    We at there just want to make friends with classic car enthusiasts,not enemies!

    Thanks your support and welcome to China!
  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    I'm not aware that they have asked for any financial help. So for the time being I'll take them at their word, and I have offered my advice (for what little THAT is worth, LOL!). The Chinese economy is going like gangbusters now, so it's not surprising that these folks are beginning to take an interest in such formerly bourgeois interests as restoring old cars. I'm always happy to connect with kindred old-car enthusiasts wherever they exist.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    HudsonTech-1909-1957 wrote:
    Foreign people as enemies - in my 20 + years of wandering all over the globe for Uncle Sam, outside of a couple places where the natives were a bit hostile, I made this interesting discovery. In most everywhere I went I found a healthy interest in us, our country and our culture.

    The problem is two fold - politicians and the news media OUR newsmedia. If you really read some of the clap trap our media pours out everybody in the world is ready to bury us. I have found people "over there" to be much better informed regards foreign affairs - Americans tend to be to "lazy" to bother with, or worry about, people overseas. To many American, for example, people in the middle east are "rag heads", fit only for jokes. All Muslims are terrorists, say far to many Americans who only know what OUR media shoves down their throats. Actually, the Quran (??SP), their bible, does NOT support the violence of the Muslim extremeists. After all, there is no profit in reporting stories that present a "positive" aspect - a roadside bomb that kills Americans, and co-incidently, local population is much more "newsworthy."

    My soapbox for the morning - everybody have a nice day. And get out and smell the roses.

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Couldn't agree with you more Alex. I've traveled some in Eastern and Western Europe and most people have no issues with Americans. But we are quick to label people and justify bad treatment of an ethnicity if they aren't us. If people want to know what is actually going on in this world, give up the Fox and MSNBC news garbage and read/watch independent/world news, if you get enough different sources, you'll come up with a fair amount of truth.

    Jay "a born cynic"
  • Geoff
    Geoff Senior Contributor
    I know this is getting off track from the original thread, but unfortunately the impression gained over the years of Americans is the loud, garrulous, cigar smoking, rich aggressive tourist, throwing money around and complaining they can't get a decent hamburger in this little dump! In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth, as the contacts whe had with Americans we have met in our four trips over there, and those who have visited us, have been nothing but positive. We have met genuine caring, sharing, and hospitable people who have had us in their homes and been very gracious to us. Perhaps the same thing may apply to you in the U.S. in your attitudes to other nationalities. Don't take this the wrong way, but you are not the centre of the universe. God is watching over all his people. You have a great country, and I admire your patriotic spirit. But please allow us "aliens" to have our place in the scheme of things.

    Geoff.
  • Aaron D. IL
    Aaron D. IL Senior Contributor
    A global economy won't mean much till people view themselves as global citizens In major American cities getting realistic news is worse than in rural areas. News in Chicago for example is mainly about Chicago with only a sprinkling of national news and little if any international news. I try to listen to the BBC at least then you have a little clue of what's going on in the rest of the world. I've been the Egypt, Italy, and the Carribean and there's a long list of other places I want to visit, and I think it would be awfully healthy if more Americans did travel and did not view the US as the center of the world.....humility is a good thing. Stereotypes are not. One thing I've found was that in the countries I've visited people are sophisticated enough to realize the regular American citizens are not necesarily the same as our government or media or any of our other "PR people." Finding 2 Americans that are exactly alike is difficult if not impossible. But getting back to the point of this thread I'd support an museum that preserves classic cars in China or anwhere else. There's thousands of rare and significant cars out there that still need restoration and a good home.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I stand by my words. That's the nice thing about living in a FREE country, though they'd know nothing about that. I am not nearly as prone to trust a sworn hostile regime as some would be.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Geoff C., N.Z. wrote:
    I know this is getting off track from the original thread, but unfortunately the impression gained over the years of Americans is the loud, garrulous, cigar smoking, rich aggressive tourist, throwing money around and complaining they can't get a decent hamburger in this little dump! In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth, as the contacts whe had with Americans we have met in our four trips over there, and those who have visited us, have been nothing but positive. We have met genuine caring, sharing, and hospitable people who have had us in their homes and been very gracious to us. Perhaps the same thing may apply to you in the U.S. in your attitudes to other nationalities. Don't take this the wrong way, but you are not the centre of the universe. God is watching over all his people. You have a great country, and I admire your patriotic spirit. But please allow us "aliens" to have our place in the scheme of things.

    Geoff.



    You certainly are right Geoff, but damn, it's hard to be humble! :) Niels
  • Nevada Hudson
    Nevada Hudson Senior Contributor
    Will China allow private ownership of old collectable cars? If so, good, we should help them get started. But if this is for "state' control of collector cars, that is a different matter.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Tanks for your comments!

    Maybe many people know China not enough!With my pleasure,

    China is a free country now,we can do many things by ourself.

    We hope that all of us be friends!
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