There is a young man named Zhu Yukun in Qinle Community, Anting Town, Jiading District. Over the years, he has collected more than 10,000 car models from all over the world, including many "limited editions"! The number is astonishing. His home is like a car model exhibition hall

Recently, when reporters walked into Zhu Yukun's home, it was like walking into a dazzling car model exhibition hall. In addition to a single bed for the owner and a few daily necessities, the living room, kitchen, and bedroom are filled with multi-layered display racks, which are densely packed with car models from different periods around the world. They were produced in different eras and come in different sizes. The big ones are tens of centimeters long and the small ones are as small as a thumb. The types are even more diverse, including buses, police cars, electric vehicles, cash trucks, motorcycles, off-road vehicles, express vehicles, concept cars, station wagons, military vehicles, RVs, subways, luxury cars, trains, airplanes, tanks, and more. There are award-winning racing cars and classic cars from different eras. Zhu Yukun said that these car models are made of alloy materials after being shrunk in strict accordance with the size and proportion of real cars. They are highly simulated, and even the small parts are copied very exquisitely, such as the trunk, hood, sunroof, front and rear doors, steering wheel, and tires. It can be opened or rotated, making it highly ornamental.

"General car models are 18, 43, or 64 times smaller than the real car. The cheaper ones cost a few hundred yuan, while the more expensive ones cost about 5,000 yuan." He said that the manufacturing of model cars is authorized by the automobile company. Everything is expensive, and the licensing fee accounts for a large part of the price. "For example, a car model that is scaled down 18 times must have 300-500 parts; a toy car will not have more than 10 parts." He said vividly that apart from the fact that the car model cannot be filled with gasoline or ignited, it is nothing like a real car. There is a difference. Zhu Yukun, 23, has been collecting car models for more than 10 years. He has loved and collected various car models since he was a child, and "disemboweled", repaired and modified them. In high school, in order to collect more car models, he also learned the technology of professional civilian vehicle model making, customized the color and exterior parts of car models according to customer requirements, and even added and refined the internal structure, using the money he earned to enrich his collect. Find another way to hide and nourish the treasure After graduating from high school, Zhu Yukun went to the UK to study for undergraduate and master's degrees in automotive engineering. Zhu Yukun discovered that there are a large number of car enthusiasts and car model collectors abroad. For example, British elderly people like to collect early classic cars and regional car models, while American gamers tend to be in their 30s and 40s and tend to collect exaggerated muscle cars and sports cars from the 1960s and 1970s. Japan is dominated by young people, who are fond of sports cars and exaggerated modified car models from the 1980s to the present. Zhu Yukun said that in recent years, the price of international car models has "rising." In the past, a car model cost less than a hundred yuan, but now it costs hundreds of thousands of yuan, and some even rise to 10,000 yuan. To this end, he actively participates in international non-governmental exchange platforms. In his spare time, he sells repeated styles of car models of different varieties and models from various countries in the world to other collectors through forums, post bars, offline gatherings and other channels. , use Tibet to nourish Tibet.

Caption: Tulip Wooden Retro Classic Car Model

Among Zhu Yukun's collection of car models, there are many early and out-of-print car models that were purely handmade and are rare in existence. For example, he collected a vintage car model purely handmade from tulip wood. After many twists and turns, it took more than 4 months to arrive in Shanghai from the other side of the ocean. There is also a limited collection of London subway models. After Zhu Yukun learned about it, he immediately rushed to the British Museum souvenir shop to finally get it. Up to now, Zhu Yukun has collected more than 10,000 domestic and foreign car models. The indissoluble bond with cars Zhu Yukun said that his small achievements in car model collection were inseparable from the support and help of his parents. Especially during the four years he was studying in the UK, in order to free up more time for him to study, his parents took the initiative to help him share the express delivery and pickup tasks of car models, and also helped him as much as possible financially. After returning to China, Zhu Yukun, who lives in Fengxian, chose to work in the R&D department of Shanghai Volkswagen Co., Ltd. and rented a house in Anting Town as his new home to live and store car models. Zhu Yukun said that he has liked collecting car models since he was a child. He never imagined that the studies and jobs he would choose when he grew up would also be related to cars. This is really a fate. Zhu Yukun introduced that internationally, 80% of car models are produced in China. Today, in addition to working during the day, in his spare time or on weekends, Zhu Yukun is still devoted to the world of car model collection, actively participating in various exchange activities, and is very busy. In his home, Zhu Yukun pointed to rows of neat packaging boxes and said: "These are all simulation car models made in China, which are about to be sent to all over the world. As a car model collector and disseminator, , I am really proud that more Chinese-made car models can be introduced to the world."

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