Holy Crap: Castro is dead! What cars would you bring out of Cuba?

"coqui70" (coqui70)
11/26/2016 at 01:05 • Filed to: None

Just heard this - Fidel Castro is dead! Not really a fan so good riddance but there is an interesting car scene in Cuba driven out of necessity. What cars would you look for there and bring back?

DISCUSSION (18)

Phatboyphil > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 01:08

What cars did Cuba get that we didn’t?

not for canada - australian in disguise > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 01:10

Pretty sure I could get a Dacia Sandero.

Kinja'd!!!

Great news!

coqui70 > Phatboyphil
11/26/2016 at 01:10

It’s not what they got that we did not but that they preserved many cars that went to the crusher here. Think 1950 - 1960 era vehicles. Forget the Soviet built crap - they can keep it.

For Sweden > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 01:16

Do they have any Soviet tanks?

ranwhenparked > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 01:19

Well, guess that’s one down, one to go.

RallyWrench > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 01:28

I’d leave them all there, but send them all the parts they need. They’ve become as much a part of Cuba’s culture as the food and music to outsiders.

Land_Yacht_225 > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 01:33

I have no interest in a 1959 Buick Limited with a Lada power plant and drivetrain.

MrDakka > For Sweden
11/26/2016 at 01:54

Wrong country. If you want 50's Soviet vintage tanks, it’s North Korea you want

DipodomysDeserti > ranwhenparked
11/26/2016 at 01:56

One to go until what? Cuba becomes like Haiti and the DR? Shit, I think Cuba still has better healthcare than Puerto Rico.

ranwhenparked > DipodomysDeserti
11/26/2016 at 01:59

Until Raul dies and the family dictatorship can be over. Of course, his likely successor is an equally outdated hardliner, so it’s not like anything would really change.

Frank Grimes > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 02:16

none because they are all botched together crap with jury rigged fixes built on jury rigged fixes.

fintail > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 02:17

I don’t know if “preserved” is a good term, a lot of these cars are modified beyond redemption if one wants a correct period piece. Cubans have made do with what was there before going into a dark age, and have done an admirable job out of necessity.

If anything, we should send them parts for the cars that have survived, in order to keep them on the road, as they are a part of life and culture now. We have enough 54 Chevy sedans here.

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 02:21

No cars but the healthcare system

pip bip - choose Corrour > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 06:42

as they say, if you can’t say anything nice about someone don’t say anything, so......

what cars? easy! anything Russian.

Sam > For Sweden
11/26/2016 at 07:42

For a while they had some nice Soviet missiles you could probably buy, but freaking Kennedy just had to swoop in and take them away from the poor Cubans. He didn’t even think of the children!

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 08:40

I’ll take a bicycle with a washing wachine motor

My bird IS the word > coqui70
11/26/2016 at 10:36

The only car I really want from that era.

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Rykilla303 > coqui70
11/29/2016 at 18:28