When my friend Sam wrote about the Xingtai made Dacia, he told us that there was another factory that has made a Dacia pickup copy: the Shenyang Sanshan Company.
The Hongguang Machinery Factory of the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, Shenyang Dongling Corporation was established in 1985. The factory address was in the Dongling District of Shenyang City (Liaoning Province), on the south bank of the Hunhe River.
In the 1980s Sanshan made a very square all wheel drive vehicle, as station wagon and as pickup.
Both where advertised together with Jiefang and Dongfeng truck conversions: trailers, dumpers etc.
The company changed its names and was now named: Shenyang Sanshan Automobile Industry Group Associated Company. It was a national designated civilian automobile production plant. Its main products included Sanshan brand semi-trailers, dump trucks, cryogenic liquid trucks, vans, refrigerated trucks, fuel tankers, 20-foot and 40-foot container semi-trailers.
There is not much known about this small company.
Let’s start with the Dongfeng and Jiefang conversions.
Then the station wagons:
Sanshan HSB1030. Equipped with a 492Q 2445cc engine, length 4650mm.
And the pickups:
All these cars are made in small quantities in the 1980s-1990s. There are some estimations for the year 1991: total production 2100, of which 1000 HSB1031 pickups, 500 HSB1030 station wagons, 500 HSB 9130 semi trailers and 100 HSB5100GY tankers. In 1987 199 HS121 station wagons were made.
The last Sanshan we show here is the Dacia copy. This car has the same design as the Xingtai XTQ1020KH.
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In addition to Sam’s article from October 2018, we found some more interesting photos.
This photo proves the production of a Dacia station wagon in Xingtai.
This strange blue sedan version is based on the pickup. I don’t know in which factory it is made. The car appeared in the movie Zhebei zibu qianni, 1994. Photos from imcdb.org.
Besides of these Chinese versions, a lot of original Romanian Dacia’s have been sold in China. There are still some left.
Hi Eric,
It seems that many, many manufactures made these wagons back in the day – a shape mostly cribbed from a Y30 Nissan Cedric wagon, based on a BJ212 platform.
I wonder why this specific design was made by so many companies, and I have never seen a recent photo of any survivors from any company. Could you shine a light on this?
-Ben
The same reason why there were so many Isuzu copies in the 90s I think.
Hello Ben, it seems that the choice to reproduce cars was limited and that the Y30 was one of them. It is true that many companies were making cars according the same design, either Chinese (CA10, EQ140, BJ212, BJ130, NJ130 etc.) or foreign (Toyota, Nissan etc.) This is making our research not easy.
With your question you mean specific Y30-copy survivors?
Hi Eric,
Indeed – it’s interesting seeing all these different Y30 copies from everyone (Yema, Great Wall, Sanshan like noted above, etc) produce so many variations of these, yet the only survivor I seen was an actual CKD Y30 wagon, none of these copies based on BJ212 mechanicals no matter the manufacturer.
I understand the number of survivors will not be high, but there were dozens if not hundreds of companies making them, there’s gotta be some survivors?
Ben
One of the main reasons that there are no survivors of the Chinese Y30 models is the ‘vehicle scrap regulations’. For years (I believe since 1983) cars older than 15 years had to be scrapped, even when they were in good condition. The only exception was the Hongqi limousine. Another reason was the poor quality of these copies. Most part of China is also not veteran car friendly, especially the humidity.
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