Just before the beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1966), Shanghai Auto started to work on a replacement for the SH760 Sedan. The prototypes were bigger than the SH760.
The Shanghai SH 762 was the first attempt to make a successor.
The SH762 saw its light in 1967. It was equipped with the 680Q engine which also fitted the SH760.
The second model is this very square car. “The Album of Shanghai Famous Sedans 1958-1998” names it the Shanghai SH763. According the album, the engine is the standard Shanghai 680Q, which was also in use in the SH760. This album (1998) is a joint production of the Shanghai automotive industry. It was given to me in 2005 by the late mr. Sun Hongfu, a famous Shanghai veteran car collector.
I wrote about the design of these cars in 2018.
Don’t ask me for production figures. I don’t have them. I would guess Shanghai Auto made about one to three cars of the SH763. It was Oliver Barnham who saw the car in Suzhou in 1980 (13 years later).
Number three in this range is …yes, I have no designation. This is the car that showed up in the archive of mr. Bai Guang where I found it in 2016.
Nothing is known of this one, as I have written before. Let us call it Shanghai SH76?.
The registration is very near the SH762 prototype: Test08-118 (the SH762: Test08-116). The car looks more frivolous than the very square SH763. I regard it as just another exercise for finding a replacement for the SH760.
Like I have written about the SH771 these were promising successors of the SH760 and it is a pity that all these attempts were just without a future. Most certainly the Cultural Revolution was blocking their future, and the ordinary Shanghai SH760/SH760A stayed into production till 1991.
wow, I think thats the first time we saw Shanghai SH763 from the back!
Looks like a lesser Zil swallowed a mid-60s Falcon.
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