Not long ago, I went out to play, in front of a private club, I actually drove to the car that people played thirty years ago, which was collected by people with hearts and maintained in good condition.
What car? It is Jinan Light Riding and Happiness 250. Seeing here young people may show that they do not understand, but the uncle will be bright, is this not the dream lover of the year?
The people who have ridden this car are estimated to be over sixty years old, or even seventy or eighty years old.
In the 1970s, when bicycles were all luxuries, owning it was the cow, several times more cattle than today's Mercedes-Benz BMW.
Riding it up, no one does not give way, no one does not look sideways, the sudden sound, from far and near, and then from near and far, it is really too windy...
It is called "single cylinder", donkey, black old bird, most of which is used by special workers, such as sending telegrams, movie theaters, emergency use of electric power, and emergency use as a motor vehicle.
It is also the earliest motor vehicle to enter the family of ordinary people, and the price is about seven hundred yuan. But "can't afford it!" "It is a national topic, many people dare not think, only envy ...
In my city, only high-income earners can have it, such as "underground coal miners"...
In the 1980s and 1990s, single cylinders gradually withdrew from the historical stage, motorcycles appeared in family subscriptions, and the earliest domestic motorcycles were 250, which became the main tool for long-distance trafficking.
Remember that there is also a kind of Yellow River 250, it seems that there is always a problem, and the happiness 250 is a symbol of brand and quality, and it was once difficult to buy.
Remember that in 1993, a certain unit distributed motorcycles to employees for the convenience of their work, or also called "subsidized car purchase".
The specific plan is that the unit subsidy is 3,000 yuan, and the rest of the employees raise their own funds, buy what car they choose...
As a result, a small number of people with good conditions in the family bought Japanese imported motorcycles such as Suzuki and Honda (7000-8000), most employees bought the domestic South 125 (about 6000), and some people liked the car to buy the Jialing 70 (about 5000).
Among them, only two people bought this happiness 250 (about 3000 yuan), completely without their own money, this time the motorcycle mass production and import, happiness 250 somewhat unpopular.
This old happiness 250 fare fuel not to mention, the noise is also old...
Two years later, some employees began to sell cars, the result of the last loss of the most money is the South 125, basically lost 1000-2000 yuan, other models not only did not lose, but also made a little money, because the price of goods rose, motorcycles rose sharply, Happiness 250 also rose by more than 1000 ...
This is a Shanghai-made Phoenix brand bicycle, which may not feel anything for young people today, and if you have it back then, it is the feeling of driving a luxury car now.
In the seventies and eighties, it was the era of national bicycles, when there were bicycle factories everywhere, and the best brand was the "permanent" and "phoenix" made in Shanghai, at that time these two kinds of bicycles were purchased with tickets, and tickets were particularly difficult to get, people who rode this kind of bicycle were family backgrounds, ordinary people could not buy money, in a sense, riding the big phoenix is a symbol of power and status.
Through the bicycle to explain the family background and identity, that was the most direct expression, the girl who can ride the "big phoenix", enough to be proud and extraordinary feelings, let people look sideways and guess: whose handmaiden is this?
This kind of bicycle seems to sell for 145 yuan that year, which is 20 yuan more expensive than other bicycles...