This is the rear of car which looks like a Toyota Crown S130 but which is in fact a Great Wall CC1020s!
In 1976 the Great Wall Refit Works were established by mr. Wei Deliang. They started automotive production in 1984. In these early years Great Wall made some vehicles in very low quantities. For instance in 1987 they made 355 vehicles. One of the vehicles was this CC130 truck, which I encountered in 1987. 
Or this car, a CC513 eight seats station wagon based on the chassis of a BJ212.
In 1989 mr. Wei Deliang got an accident and it was his nephew, mr. Wei Jianjun who became in 1990 general manager of the Great Wall Motor Industry Company.
And young mr. Wei had ambitions!
He studied the ins and outs of Japanese cars. You can see him here stepping out of a Nissan Cedric Y30.
Now it is getting serious. Mr. Wei wanted to make cars, like mr. Li (Shufu from Geely) and like mr. Li, he attempted something which is difficult to find back in the official history of Great Wall Automobiles: he copied Japanese cars. Mr. Li from Geely copied Mercedes cars, we will come back to that one later. It seems that both successful entrepreneur are a little bit ashamed about their early attempts. And the result is that it is difficult to find a coherent history about this period. I have pieces of a jigsaw, but not the complete picture. I will give you the pieces.
So we are in the early 1990s and here is a photo of a Japanese style model with the ChangCheng (Great Wall) name on the grille. In fact, it is the same model as the photo above, a Nissan Cedric Y30. 
I have even a copy of a brochure showing a CC1020 car:
In 1994 in China’s far west (Kashgar) I met this Great Wall sedan, looking like the CC1020, but this car seemed to be built on a BJ121 chassis.
This car has the word GREAT on the rear. No word about the WALL…
Interesting is the early Great Wall logo which is on the front.
This (heavier) car was named Great Wall CC1020S, Tycho recognized it as a copy of Toyota Crown S130.
In 1996 I met a CC1020S. The rear shows the make: Great Wall!
There have been a wagon based on this CC1020S too, named CC6470:
There is also a crew cab pickup also named CC1020S:
And even a longer station wagon, clearly on a BJ212 chassis:
Beware, this is a Rolls Royce Silver Spur with a Great Wall logo! The basis is clearly the CC1020S!
To know more of this ‘Rolls Royce’, look at the end of this article.
A limousine. (No, it is not a Toyota.)
And here the Hawk CC6470. Now I must say stop, this car isn’t 4.70 m!
After this confusing Japanese car copying period Great Wall went into pickups and from 1996 on started to grow into a real car manufacturer.
Mr. Wei Jianjun became a billionaire.
That leaves us with a lot of unanswered questions: was there any car built in serial production, which one, how many, what period?
After publishing it was our dear friend Damien (Navigator8426) who found a Great Wall-Rolls Royce in Dalian in 2019.
In the background of the CC1020S car can be seen a Skoda Forman. Where Skoda Favorit/Forman ever sold or buld in China?
Hello Ingolf, the small Skoda’s (before VW came in), like so many East European cars, were for sale in China.
That Hawk CC6470 looks like it was based on the Toyota Corolla E80
You are right David, it is a clear copy!
Any more info about the “Rolls Royce”?
No Somil.
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Tech specs sheet for Great Wall cars:
and color selection… the CC6470 had some very nice colors avaliable to pick from!
And a very odd sighting in the brochure, it also features what seems to be CC6470 Hawk but in a wagon variant, making it the 3rd CC6470.
Aren’t there only 2 CC6470 s including this one?
Well Somil, in my article you can see a Toyota Crown Wagon and a Toyota Corolla copy named CC6470. So this Toyota Corolla Wagon is number three. In the specs which JFK has sent you can see that the Corolla copy should have been named CC6420 in stead of CC6470.
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Interesting，CC1020 is a sedan, but its model number starts with “1”, which indicates that it is not modified based on a passenger car chassis, but a truck chassis!
Mr. Marshall, Great Wall at that time had no license to built motor cars. So they had to be creative: either to use a truck number (like the 1000-series) or a bus number (like the 6000-series). It has nothing to do with a chassis (there were a lot of cars named 1010 with a self supporting body work, and also 1020 cars). The position of Great Wall was like the Guangdong cars which Tycho has described so perfectly. They just made up something.
ok i see.thanks！
I used to think that the model of a car was related to the chassis it uses.
I think its also possible that the bootlid got sold separately for the CC1020 model, so it would “”technically”” be considered a 4 door crew cab pickup. I think some car makers did that at the time.
yeah，at that time, there were indeed manufacturers who did this，for example：Tianma（天马）and Eagle（鹰牌）.
I found this picture : a GWM that is extremely similar to the Xiali TJ7100, with the license plate reading “Baoding GWM”，this was taken at a automobile exhibition.
Hi Marshall, which autoshow and when? it is a great found, I have never seen (a picture of) this car. You are right, it is clearly based on the Xiali (Daihatsu Charade).
Sorry Erik,I can’t find any more information. This is a picture of a second-hand website, and there are also some other foreign vehicles on display, but the seller did not provide more information.
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