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This Chinese collector is just like you (and me)

Every now and then the motor media outlets spread stories that are really worth telling. Transcendent stories that highlight what unites the human race across the globe and not what separates it. To our small scale classic car, This is one of those.

Luo Wenyou is a chinese collector who, like us, is absolutely crazy by vintage cars. Even as a child, when there were hardly any four-wheeled machines in Mao's China, he longed to take the wheel and feel the detonations of the internal combustion engine at his command. He was from an upper-middle-class family, so the dream had signs of coming true.

After high school, his father found him a good job in charge of a government official. And as soon as he had some savings, he melted in a brand new car; in the ADIEX He tells us about the excitement of engaging the first and then the rest of the gears and the magical sensation of speed and independence. He liked the business so much that he quit his job and then started as a carrier.

The awakening of the fans

One day while in Shanghai, his gaze fell on a classic. Luo tells us how, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it. This is how he woke up his hobby for the old irons; He bought it and that was the first of the more than 200 cars that today make up his museum (yes, you read that correctly).

The truth is that it has things like that that you have to see. This is the case of Mao's colossal presidential limousine, the owner of which he could not enjoy as he died before it was finished; or also that of the Dalai Lama, apparently given to the political and religious authority of Tibet by the Chinese state in an attempt to ease the tensions of the occupation. As recounted in the Video, the absence of roads in the Himalayas meant that it had to be transported by people and oxen to its new garage.

Cultural heritage thousands of kilometers from here

But let's get back to character. To Lou wenyou It has not been easy at all: Had it not been infected by the virus, he would not have sold all his companies to found a museum; Had he not seen that classic car in Shanghai, he might have continued to enjoy his elevated lifestyle behind the wheel of new imported cars.

And yet he chose to give up being privileged; She chose to get up early in the morning to clean and fix her treasures and, among other things, to get back to using public transportation. Supported by his wife Yang Wenjun -but what good couples are you-, he chose to go his own way to proclaim from the rooftops that the ancient vehicle is Cultural Heritage. Even more so in China, where the scarcity of the past has meant that each classic has great stories to tell.

Anyway, I believe that the royo sounds to you: In his hobby, and probably in many other things, Luo is nailed to any of us.

Although it is in English, I hope you enjoy the ADIEX that I leave you next.

* After this small but impeccably made documentary by James
Wasserman the Chinese state has begun to fund the Luo Wenyou museum.

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Written by javier romagosa

My name is Javier Romagosa. My father has always been passionate about historic vehicles and I have inherited his hobby, while growing up among classic cars and motorcycles. I have studied journalism and continue to do so as I want to become a university professor and change the world ... Read more

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