cuban classics

I need to do my Cuba thread. The way they keep their cars running is certainly great given the circumstances!

Thanks 93fxdl for sharing. Cuba is on my list of places to visit. Got to go soon before the 'mericans ruin it.

Dingy know if anyone is looking, but here's episode 4 anyway

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Episode 5

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Episode 7

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Funnily enough, I just picked up an excellent book on the American cars of Cuba. It's called "Riding Along in My Automobile". I stumbled across it by accident in England's highest bookshop (apparently) just off the Leek-Buxton road. I wouldn't have paid the original price of £30 for it but it was reduced under a tenner and it's a lot of coffee table book for that.



It's a funny old thing, though, "written" by Storm Thorgerson... yeah, him of Hipgnosis fame what did all those album covers for Pink Floyd and suchlike... it's high on beautiful photographs and extremely low on prose content. To be fair to th'boy Storm, he makes no bones about the fact he's a shapes and colours guy and knows literally nothing about cars. He ain't kidding either; he seems perplexed and even slightly outraged to find that a Corvair keeps its engine in the back. But the photos are superb, and his avowed intent to basically document a unique style of car before detente sweeps in (and so do the Americanos) and curse word it right up. One guy interviewed for the book states his car is a family heirloom and he'll keep it until it's no longer possible to repair it. "Would you never sell it?" ... "Yes, if someone offered me what it was worth."

There you go then. Go there now if you care before it becomes like anywhere else