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In 1978/9, I was involved in a project to bring Chinese vehicles to the West.
Bill Riley (lovely guy: the grandson of the founder of Riley Cars and a very well recognised automotive and consulting engineer) was also a main part of the programme as he'd been headhunted by the Chinese government to assist them with a re-design of their vehicles.
We imported a Pekin Jeep: this was a "made Under License" Gaz large and lumpy 4 X 4.
To say it was agricultural would be to understate the case....................
Prior to Bill's involvement, the steering was so bad that new, the vehicle would wander from hard shoulder to central reservation on the widest bits of the M1 with the steering wheel dead centre!
Exciting!
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