The China Car Times Auction is finally over, with the amount raised coming to a final amount of just over 12,981rmb, or $1875.97USD!
The earthquake that struck in Wen Chuan, Sichuan, left over 50,000 dead and over 5 million homeless. The amount that we have risen, although small in Western terms, will go a long way to help those that were effected; the average monthly salary of a Wen Chuan worker is just over 300rmb a month, thus we’ve raised enough to support just over 40 workers for a month, or buy several thousand bowls of rice, or tents, or however The Chinese Red Cross decide to spend the money.
We’d like to thank Paul Stowe, for pushing the idea into becoming a reality, APR Automotive for sending out an excellent press releaase, Keith and Clive from ARonline for being good eggs, Chris Tutor from Autoblog, David Legget for blogging about it, Erik for his behind the scenes work, Steve Childs from MG-Rover and of course MacDroitwhich
Not forgetting those who donated gifts,
Richard Ji – Nanjing MG UK
Ben Boycott – Lotus China
Mathew Cheyne – LTI Coventry
Lifan Automotive – China
Martin Hayes – APR London (He sent out a press release to 50,000 media people)
Paul Stowe summed it up nicely in his charity blog:
Such has been the success of the project; we are considering holding another auction later this year. Over the years I and
Ash have collected various items of automotive memorabilia (Signed books by Li ShuFu Geely founder, Registration plates off the first MG built at Nanjing, Limited edition NAC MG models, Limited edition Shanghai Maple and Geely models, etc. etc.) – Let us know what you think
Between the pair of us, we have a lot of automotive tat memorabilia, books, t-shirts, magazines, automotive accessories that we get given and never used, and oddly enough a Roewe branded tea set. Perhaps, in the near future, we’ll have another auction to further the good work, that we, and you, have done so far.
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