The Red Star car is entirely painted in red and has a slender body. Its logo is like a divine bird flying in the clouds, leaping from the east.
The front grille adopts Chinese-style cloud patterns, and the headlights adopt the style of palace lanterns, protruding forward like a pair of guiding pearls.
At this moment, Ao Sanyuan stood in front of the red star car with his body bent.
Hair all white.
stubble.
The whole person is full of a sense of decadence.
As an old friend, Deng Dongming comforted him softly:
"Ao Gong, it's okay, we can start over."
Deng Dongming is also a senior engineer in Jinghong Auto Repair Factory and participated in the entire trial production of Jinghong cars.
Therefore, he understood Ao Sanyuan's inner feelings at this time.
That's a frustration.
And the self-doubt and denial caused by failure.
Yesterday, the machinery factory informed that the power component adaptation work has been completed and the prototype can be assembled.
The whole factory rejoiced.
The leaders of the municipal party committee attach great importance to this.
The leader surnamed Huang canceled the morning meeting and came to Jinghong Auto Repair Factory in person to watch the entire prototype assembly work.
The employees of Jinghong Auto Repair Factory and Brothers Auto Repair Factory are full of confidence.
With an order, the assembly of prototype cars began in full swing.
After being busy for more than an hour, everyone was dumbfounded when the Red Star car appeared.
The big leader looked at it for a few times, commented a few words with slight disappointment, turned around and left.
The atmosphere at the scene immediately fell to the bottom.
Everyone felt a strong sense of frustration.
In fact, I don’t blame the leaders for having this attitude, because Red Star cars have serious shortcomings.
Appearance.
On the 1:5 three-row clay model, the body is tall and elegant, like a swimming dragon or a red bird, but when it is made into a real car, it feels like a flat belly.
The body is long and flat, and it is difficult for this kind of car to turn in alleys.
This is neither beautiful nor practical.
Compared with the imitation car Volga, it looks like a nondescript and deformed monster.
According to the original words of the big leader, "The copying was done without skill and the copying was nondescript."
Deng Dongming also knows that China's automobile manufacturing industry has just started and lacks accumulation.
Faced with the political task of "the sooner, the better", we can only adhere to the design principle of "imitation first, appropriate transformation".
It's just that there were serious errors in the vehicle design, which were entirely caused by the designers' inexperience.
Performance.
Jinghong Auto Repair Factory outsources complete vehicles by module and purchases parts from brother factories.
A single car module works well, but when assembled together, problems occur frequently.
For example, a distributor failure causes the ignition to fail.
Gear meshing causes the gears to break and the engine to stall.
Cluttered wiring leads to "engaged" gears, inexplicable steering failure, etc.
After a test drive, I found that the Red Star car has many safety hazards.
Ao Sanyuan sighed dejectedly, shook his head and smiled bitterly:
"If we start over, do we still have a chance?"
You know, manufacturing prototype cars also requires costs.
As a political mission, the purchase price limit for Red Star vehicles is 50,000 yuan, but the actual manufacturing cost is at least 80,000 yuan.
What was the concept of 80,000 yuan in the 1960s?
At this time, the average monthly salary of state-owned enterprise employees was 40 yuan.
This is already an above-average standard.
80,000 yuan is equivalent to the salary of the big brother who worked for 166 years without food or water.
Not to mention that early-stage research and development also requires a large investment.
This is simply a four-wheeled gold-eating beast.
Even if they had the courage to start over, the factory would not invest money in research and development.
Deng Dongming gritted his teeth and said: "No, we can modify this model and put it into production directly?"
"Anyway, the theoretical performance of the three-row Red Star car can reach a speed of 128 kilometers per hour, which is not inferior to imported cars."
Ao Sanyuan's expression changed: "No, this is irresponsible and will affect the reputation of our auto repair shop."
Deng Dongming sighed and said, "Old friend, do you have a better way?"
"This..."
This is a very cruel reality.
Ao Sanyuan has no choice.
But let this faulty Red Star car be put into production?
Waste a lot of resources to make a toy to cover up the appearance?
Deng Dongming took a deep breath and said: "Old friend, don't you have a friend who is very good at auto repair? Why don't you invite him over to make adjustments to the Red Star car?"
Ao Sanyuan hesitated and asked: "Cao Weidong?"
Deng Dongming nodded.
Ao Sanyuan sighed: "Actually, I called the steel rolling mill in the morning and asked the duty room to inform Ao Liu and call Cao Weidong over."
"But in this situation, even if Cao Weidong comes, there is nothing we can do."
"If it doesn't work, just give up..."
Ao Sanyuan's voice was dry, and there was a faint feeling that Du Juan was crying.
"Report to the main factory and hand over this task to other brother auto repair shops. Hand over all prototype cars and drawings."
At this time, a clear voice sounded from behind the two of them: "Who said you want to give up?"
Ao Sanyuan and Deng Dongming were stunned.
They turned around and saw Cao Weidong and Ao Liu coming from outside the workshop.
Cao Weidong walked up to Ao Sanyuan and said, "We still have a chance, believe me."
One sentence made Ao Sanyuan almost burst into tears.
........
"Finally caught up."
Cao Weidong breathed a sigh of relief.
When Ao Liu found him, the system popped up a prompt for the second round of tasks.
The mission rewards a rich horse.
Especially...
"Special opportunity, what is this?"
Cao Weidong opened the system virtual screen to view.
Then it dawned on me.
He had read a book in his previous life, which said that there would be seven "great fortunes" in life. As long as you can seize the opportunity, you can change your destiny.
The "opportunity" rewarded by the system is actually "great luck".
For example, Cui Dake.
He was originally a temporary worker delivering pigs to the commune, but he took advantage of the "Universiade" and got close to factory director Liu Feng, and suddenly became a factory cadre.
Another example is Qin Huairu.
It's just an ordinary member of the Qinjiagou production team who married into the Jia family and became a city dweller eating "commercial grain".
What would happen if you grasped the "Great Luck"?
"The task must be completed."
Cao Weidong was filled with excitement.
At this moment, the system prompt sounded like it was refreshing the screen again.
Damn it!
Cao Weidong was so shocked that he broke out in a cold sweat.
What is going on?
I haven’t taken action yet, and the mission is going to be in vain?
He slapped Ao Liu and said anxiously: "Take me to Jinghong Auto Repair Factory immediately, immediately!"