Not a 73 year old Jaguar

[ChinaTom]

Wifey surfing through her usual Chinese websites and yells - "ooo look, someone has a 73 year old Jaguar in Beijing - here's a photo of it". Mmm, an interesting thought, better come in and have a look.

 

 

Something Russian is my guess - anyone know? "Jaguar" is often translated as "south American large and fairly fierce cat-like animal". Not the official translation though.

 

But I can safely say tis no Jaguar. Wifey reprimanded.

[outlaw118]

Doesn't look like 73 years old either!!Birds eh??!!

[Ratdat]

Looks a bit like a packard Clipper to me.

[Torsten2001]

Clipper sounds right but what's with the German plates?

[AnthonyG]

Its a c. 1956 Plymouth, probably a Plaza judging by the lack of chrome on the front. Probably belonged to an embassy, or found its way across from Mongolia or Tibet.

[Volksy]

Blimey AntonyG well recognised!

Here's a photo of a '56 Plaza.. Looks right to me.

 

 

I did think it looked like a Zil at first, which could have been a copy of these I guess

 

 

but in my search I found this crazy Zil minibus..

 

 

I'd love one, totally Thunderbirds dude!

[ChinaTom]

Plaza looks to be the one for sure. Thanks.Maybe an East German embassy car, although it could be a film-set prop for Hong Kong film makers who shoot stuff on the mainland. The article about it is ridiculous - according to the author the owner truly claims it is a piece of English heritage with engineering links to the Queen's limousines (DS420 presumably). Twanny. As this was "filler inches" for a cosmetics based website (which is why wifey stumbled upon it) I doubt many people noticed.Wifey reprimanded again for reading such drivel.

[ChinaTom]

Aha, you may have revealed another clue with that Plaza pic: it looks a little Cuban, and there was a lot of rumpy-pumpy between China and Havana in those days - oil for sugar etc etc. Cuba had a big representation here at that time, and would have probably driven a Berlin car to Beijing to pootle between the whore-houses and government offices.Today I shall be mostly researching irrelevant bollocks. Too hot to work anyway.

[nigel bickle]

Yup,I'll have that. Ship it over, I'll barn it till I'm ready

[Torsten2001]

Those West German plates are a mystery though

[ChinaTom]

Confirmed now as a film prop car owned by some HK company and being stored by an old chap in BeiJing who probably agreed to store Jaguars for free. Wifey reprimanded again.