"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
12/17/2014 at 11:57 • Filed to: Car Buying, Bartering, Yank Tank, Cuba, Communism
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"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
12/17/2014 at 11:57 • Filed to: Car Buying, Bartering, Yank Tank, Cuba, Communism | 6
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Step 1: Take a boat to Cuba. Take a MkII Golf in decent condition with you.
Step 2: Find a
slave
peasant
worker blessed to live in the bosom of the Revolution
Step 3: Trade your relatively cutting-edge Golf for a Yank Tank.
Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:01 |
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Although most of the cars there would need an immense amount of restoration. They do a lot of ghetto (but actually quite clever in some cases) fixes to keep them going.
505Turbeaux
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:03 |
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Ill see if I can get some cigars into the states first
Brian, The Life of
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:04 |
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I'll be happy to find quarter trim for a '55 Fairlane Town Sedan.
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> 505Turbeaux
12/17/2014 at 12:04 |
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Cuban cigars have been meh to crap for a while. All the good cigar makers took their plants to Nicaragua.
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505Turbeaux
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:06 |
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yeah, I know that, but it is forbidden fruit. Makes good gifts for people who don't know that.
also a good test of the import export rules before you start bringing some American steel back to the States!
ClassicDatsunDebate
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:08 |
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If this could be done, us Canadians would already been doing it.
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For Sweden
> ClassicDatsunDebate
12/17/2014 at 12:10 |
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The moment a Canadian sees someone from the Cuban Interior Ministry observing the trade, the Canadian panics, says, "Sorry aboot it. How about Trudeau, eh?" and shuffles away.
TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:12 |
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Some cars are rarer though. Like Astons and Merc Gullwings - the people know that they are valuable and thus raise the price higher by claiming it used to be owned by someone famous. Somewhere in Cuba, there's an absolutely gutted Maserati convertible, of which the owner is asking $50,000.
PatBateman
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:13 |
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Cuban cigars are famous more for their rollers than their tobacco in recent years. Many companies have upped their games to match (or beat) Cuba's quality of cigars.
Strangely enough, I still love Cohiba Habanas.
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PatBateman
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:14 |
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Hooray!!! I can't wait to go to some of their beach resorts!!!
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For Sweden
> PatBateman
12/17/2014 at 12:20 |
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I hear the group workouts are great, even though the trainers don't let you leave. Ever.
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ClassicDatsunDebate
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:23 |
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It's more like...do I screw around with customs or do I sit on the beach in Varadero with a Havana Club and Coke, eh.
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PatBateman
> For Sweden
12/17/2014 at 12:25 |
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Yeah, I don't want to go to those. Sandals resorts are fine, thanks.
Axial
> For Sweden
12/18/2014 at 02:33 |
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Good luck getting a Cuban to actually trade with that Yank Tank that has probably been in his family for three generations now...
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> Axial
12/18/2014 at 09:57 |
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The silly capitalist notion of attachment to property doesn't exist in the worker's paradise.