Volume 1 Chapter 17: The Club is officially formed
I worked in the factory for half a year, and at that time the website. It's still very attractive to customers. Xing Yu started another QQ group, and mobile QQ was still very popular at that time. Slowly, it gathered popularity. It is also Manni himself who has a certain personality charm. But at that time, Xing Yu thought it was his own ability.
There is a surplus between the customers, and the ones are exchanged. There are also needs and want to change. Xing Yu has also been working as a lato (intermediary). Manni and the Eastern Army have also been organizing various outings. While having fun on my own, there are also more new friends coming to hear about it.
Some old customers will also put their goods in the factory to sell. One of them, Hadron, is himself a designer. It's also because I like it, I partnered with others to run an outdoor shop, and later established a club. brought a lot of high-end goods at once, Xing Yu also opened his eyes and had a new understanding of outdoor products. In the past, Xing Yu thought that those brand goods were just selling a brand. Only then did I know that these brands are really awesome, and fakes can't be compared at all. For example, Ward's outdoor bag is well-designed. The feeling on the upper body is about 20% lighter than it actually is. For example, XX's hiking shoes look very thick on the soles of the feet, but they are very light on the feet, which are stab-proof, waterproof, and protect the ankles. And that quick-drying suit dries quickly after it really drips......
Xing Yu looked at his savings and couldn't think of it: buy a car first, or change equipment first?
Hadron design work, very unstable. When it was busy, it disappeared for more than ten days. When I am free, I pass the film in the factory every day. After coming and going, he suggested that Mani simply set up a club. Members can be free of charge in the early stage, there will be activities in advance, buy things, modifications can also be discounted, and there will be free trial opportunities for new products. Members are stable customers, and in the future, members introduce newcomers to join, and there are gifts to give. In the later stage, you can charge a certain membership fee, there is a special VIP card, there are discounts for recharging, and you can directly consume in the club with the membership card......
Manni was very interested in this, but he was wary of something new. Xing Yu also learned later that when Manni was the earliest professional agent of accessories, he first set up a car audio modification shop, which is also the earliest audio modification shop in Xi'an, and lost a lot of money...... Since then, for new investments that are not familiar. Always be careful and careful, or even not touch it at all.
Qiangzi also said in the end: Otherwise, you will say to those who have a good relationship in the early stage, we are now a professional club. It's all free for you to join, and the benefits are the ones we talked about before. Then you build a professional race car, and you like to race anyway, and members can use this car for free when they race......
Hearing the game, Manni was happy. At that time, the so-called competition was actually to find a section of bad road, make a narrow bilateral bridge on it, dig a few more big potholes, pad a big slope, and make a sharp turn. Plant a flag next to it. See whose car can drive through, and see who takes the least time. Whoever is the champion.
As for the big games, let alone the Dakar and the like. Those who have run through the ring tower are gods, those who have participated in competitions such as the 428 Youth Championship are fierce people, and those who have been to the FBLIFE annual meeting to participate in the competition are not ordinary people.
The small competition in the province is a joy for our little people. Just playing. Manni is also very interested in the game, Xing Yu has already scrapped before he came, I don't know how many Cherokee, 20 and the like. I have won a lot of trophies, and later I also set up a display window in the club to display the trophies won over the years.
Catch up with the only professional club in Xi'an, which was also closed for various reasons. Many enthusiasts have no place to drink tea if they want to.
Manni pulls a few people in the factory together, and there is no need to invest too much in the early stage. Get a spot for tea and offer some basic membership services. Tell the guys to come to the film every day. That's it......
Soon, the club's infrastructure was completed. When it opened, a large number of friends came to Daohe, and then they ate and drank together. I found a day off and took a walk around the mountains. The club is officially established.
It turned out that the large warehouse that received customers, moved slightly, got two waste tires, and a glass disc was a coffee table. I got a few leather seats on American cars from the car dismantling factory, and asked the sheet metal master in the factory to add a base to the sofa...... This is also the opinion of the Eastern Army, that is, to save money and have characteristics.
It's still a good relationship, and Manni and Dongjun don't know where to get a shabby-looking Toyota LC60.Xing Yu saw it at first glance and thought it was scrap metal, this pile. Rust everywhere, hit the canopy, good guys, the engine is brand new.
No one has any experience, no one has done it. I looked at some pictures on the Internet, and Manni slapped the board and sawed it into a two-door small pickup. Xing Yu coped with 3Dmax and made a little rendering. The workers got their hands dirty, unloaded the casing, cut the back door straight out, and then welded it again. The middle section of the chassis was cut off at the same time, and the rear pass was also shortened. There is no special data on the Internet, just follow the experience of the workers.
This is also a phenomenon discovered by Xing Yu a long time later. Foreign car changes rely on data, and domestic car changes rely on experience. The same is true for car repair, later Xing Yu met many repairmen who relied on this mysterious and mysterious feeling to repair cars, others can't learn at all, but people can repair it.
In less than a month, the Y60 is good. It's ideal to go out for a test drive. It just so happened that there was a competition in Ankang, and the club members were excited to participate. It was also a group activity of the club, and there were many people who participated.
There is a son of a village chief, which is also very interesting. When we first met. He and another fellow, two of them drove an open-top gladiator, and they were sunburned like black charcoal, and he was a little fat, and he was a black fat man. This black fat man's name is Wei Xiong, and the one who often messes with him is a guy named Ren Tutu.
When the two of them came to the club for the first time, the club had been established for a while, and the two of them got out of the car and began to yell in the factory: "Brother Man, I'm here to send money, don't shake me." "When the club was established, these two buddies went to the Beijing factory to order a car, and the first thing they did when they arrived at the factory was to change a set of spring suspension.
Wei Xiong plus Shi Hui, who traveled together before. These two are the two racers of the club's first competition, and the two are not ambiguous, one sponsors the accommodation of the event, and the other bears the food and drink.
Others who go to play either drive their own car or do not do other people's car AA fuel fees. So in the first club game, the club actually spent very little, which made Manny very proud.
Before leaving, Sister Fang found a scalper who specialized in vehicle procedures and opened a zero-hour license plate. I was going to drive the LC60 tank directly to the field, and I would use it as a test drive along the way. Manni and the Eastern Army both had their own cars, and the task of positioning the LC60 was handed over to a repair engineer in the factory. If there is a problem with the vehicle at the race site, there happens to be a maintenance person who is not.
Shi Hui was born as a car soldier and used to run the Xin-Tibet route. It is the Kunlun Ridge, the earliest time to cross the Kunlun is still a dirt road rammed by man, landslides, subsidence are extremely common things. He also laughed at this competition.
There was also a Hummer H2 who was traveling together, and Xing Yu was very impulsive to rub the car. is the owner of a 4S shop, named Lu Guo. H2 is still too smuggling, but at that time there was a place in Shaanxi that could give this kind of car a brand, but it was a dead gear car, what is a dead gear. It's on the brand, everything is normal, but you can't raise the file, let alone transfer the account. It is said that the file bag is full of A4 white paper.
The others are all old people, Vitra's Happy Brother, and the Yellow Isuzu Tiger Brother are also here. More than a dozen cars set off.
The competition time is one and a half days, the first day is the preliminaries, and the second day is the finals. The place of residence was a local military guest house arranged by Wei Xiong, and the competition venue was in a small mountain village. On the first day, several players in the club completed the competition and successfully entered the finals. The first place in the preliminaries was Shi Hui, who was driving the LC60 at the time, and when he had dinner that night, he was very excited, shouting that he still had reservations, and he used all his strength in the final.
After the dinner, free time. Wei Xiong dragged Tutu and Xing Yu to drink, because these three people were close in age, and their peers naturally had a lot of topics.
According to Tutu's proposal, according to the way of Xinjiang drunkards. The three of them took two beers and squatted in the small garden of the hotel, without asking for any food. The film is preferred, and the beer is drunk. Wei Xiong drank a little too much, and at one time he would say that he was a special soldier at that time, at another time that the captain of his brigade was a graduate of the hunter school, and at another time he would say that he had gone to the hunter school. Tutu also said that he had been a soldier. Xing Yu listened, these two are the son of a village chief, and the other is a second generation. is richer than his own family, Xing Yu is still a little inferior.
In the finals, the question arises. First of all, Shi Hui drove too hard, rushed out of the field and was penalized, in fact, it was very unprofessional to wait for the race at that time, there was no distinction between the size of the displacement, and there was no distinction between the professional modified car and the modified plain car, all of which started together.
Originally, there was nothing to punish the time, but Shi Hui reversed back to the field and continued, and ran backwards again. The time lost in the back and forth is pulled down.
Wei Xiong performed very well in front, but he couldn't refuel at the end of a big slope car. At that time, Xing Yu was learning photography skills with Lu Guo, who was carrying a long mirror and a short gun, and saw that the car was not moving, so he hurriedly ran to check with the maintenance workers in the factory.
The reason is very simple: the carburetor car, the fuel tank was changed to the trunk, and after several races, a lot of gasoline was consumed. As soon as you reach the big uphill tank, the oil in the tank is a little less, and the oil supply is intermittent, and the uphill is definitely out of oil. The spare fuel tank was refueled, and the vehicle was really uphill.
Later, Xing Yu specifically asked the big worker: "Zhao Shi (a kind of honorific title often used in Xi'an, with a master added after the name, referred to as a certain teacher. You didn't check how you know it's a lack of oil?"
"It's nothing, you can run on a flat road. The car has no power when it is tilted, and it must not be able to absorb oil. During the game, I told Lao Man to fill up the gas. But he said that it was too heavy to run...... "This is the experience of Zhao Shi, a maintenance engineer in the factory."
Manni doesn't see this situation right, and he won't be able to get the trophy anymore. The reputation of the factory car was also ruined, and finally the front propeller shaft was twisted into a state to turn the tide and win the second place in a competition. The first place was taken by another rider, and it was still a four-cylinder raised cut. The third place is Brother Tiger, and the fifth place is happiness. The top six finishers all have trophies or medals. The club made up half of the top six, and Mani was proud.
The most memorable thing in this competition is the guy in the fourth place, nicknamed Le Maniac. Changed a small cut to a diesel engine, and the smoke billowed when it ran, making it the same as the old demon of Montenegro, and I also listened to the car halfway, but the oil pump did not supply oil. Get down to the pump.
Although he didn't win the first place, he also won three trophies and medals. The celebration banquet still has to be held, and some new friends were pulled at the celebration banquet, Xing Yu sold the 7250 that the factory allocated to himself on the spot according to Manni's meaning, there is a good car to drive, Xing Yu rarely drives this car.
The person who bought the car was called Xinfei, and the first time he bought a car and went to play with the club, he had to change four or six when he came back. To put it simply, it is to change the engine, and the four-cylinder engine is replaced by a six-cylinder one. Modification is an impulsive consumption, and it is necessary to make a decision immediately, and directly collect the deposit and start the modification. This is also Manni's business experience.
The club also purchased one original Nissan Patrol Y60 and two Yanjing Patrol at a low price. The biggest difference is that the original is a spring shock absorber, and Yanjing is a steel plate shock absorber. Mani felt that the club also made money renting cars for its members......
In this way, the club was established, and it was also full of popularity for a while.