Yuejin NJ230

The Yuejin NJ230 was a four ton Chinese truck built by the Nanjing Automobile Factory, later called Nanjing Auto and now part of SAIC. It replaced the smaller 2.5 ton NJ130 as the heavier Yuejin truck and was based on the Soviet GAZ-63, itself a reverse-engineered copy of the Dodge WF-32 cargo truck that the United States shipped to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease in the Second World War. It was powered by a 3.5 litre six-in-line diesel engine of about 120 horsepower, an engine of Soviet design made in China. The CarNewsChina account says production began in 1965 and ran to 1980, while another page by the same writer says it lasted into the late 1980s, and the Nanjing Automobile article states only that Nanjing truck production, including the NJ-230, continued until July 1987. The Chinese army kept using the truck until the late 1990s, and a few were still around when the account was written.