In the olden days, you banged your girl, and then got married. In China, as modern as it may be, the big bang is after the wedding ceremony. No Chinese wedding is complete without WWIII – worthy fireworks. The delivery vehicles for the marriage-megatonnage are purpose-converted ‘salute cars.’ As Tycho of Carnewschina tells us, the salute cars “are mostly based on old Beijing-Jeeps, dressed in military style with a big and scary rocket launcher in the back.”
Tycho covers Chinese cars and weddings like no other. He is a certified expert: He had his own Chinese wedding, and the grapevine says that it was successful. Tycho reports that the salute cars are for hire: “Rent for one day will cost around 5000 yuan, 800 USD, including the fireworks and personnel.”
As they said: When you get married, start your new life with a bang.
Oh my! In the U.S. the local fire marshal would get a heart attack seeing one of these rolling down the road fully loaded, on the way to a wedding. Not to mention the Department of Homeland Security.
A big and scary rocket launcher? Are you kidding? For festive occasions, there’s nothing cooler than big things that go “BANG”!
“Scary”? No.
I always wanted to fire a bowling ball mortar – just once – for the fun of it and laughing myself silly!
Good grief, that thing looks like a Katyusha rocket launcher! Roll one of these to your wedding celebration in the states and Homeland Security would have a meltdown!
The Katyusha rocket is kinda like America’s Smart Bomb.
You fire it out the back of your donkey cart and then go home and turn on CNN to find out where it landed.
The vehicle a clone of Soviet UAZ, rather than the Cherokee that was discussed at TTAC previously.
Any one else jealous that they get to have a lot more fun at less expense than we do even if it means less safety, pollution standards, litigation for damages occurred, paperwork …