The US embargo is not the reason for the survival of these cars. Nearly all private property was eventually confiscated in Cuba, but anyone who owned a car as of Jan. 1, 1959 was allowed to keep it, or pass it to a close family member. Since the average person had virtually no chance to ever get a new car, the old ones (mostly American) have been kept running in any way possible. Anyone who owns one is very fortunate.
@onelusciouslad78416 жыл бұрын
please never stop with the classic cars, it looks amazing! i wanna go just so I can see them all, be like a car show that has taken over the whole country
@dynamiteguitar12 жыл бұрын
The epitome of perfect cars, cars these days are so ugly! To me, 50's cars look more futuristic. I feel so happy when I see an old legend like these get a 2nd life and back on the road again.
@Britishness18 жыл бұрын
I've been in Cuba. Just came back home yesterday. It was great old American, soviet, and European cars everywhere.
@burkewhb10 жыл бұрын
Watching this is like going into a time warp. I was a kid in the 1950's, and I know all the makes in this video better than I do all the Japanese and South Korean cars we have now. DeSoto and Packard weren't the only cars that went out of business in the 1950's, so also did Hudson, Nash, Willys and Kaiser. Studebaker died in the 60's. The Nash Rambler and Willys Jeep survived and became part of American Motors, which was taken over by Chrysler in the 1970's. Of course, in the 2000's we lost Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Mercury (Plymouth was already long gone by then).
@manooch3 жыл бұрын
I saw an article online about how cuban mechanics are wizards of modifying parts and using totally different parts from other makes and models when they can't find original parts of those old cars...actually I have experienced talent of latin mechanics in usa too!
@robert3579008 жыл бұрын
Cuba looks like they stuck in time. I hope they will not wake up, because it's looks majestic and nostalgic.
@Alexandre-hk4jq7 жыл бұрын
You couldnt sound more cold and selfish than right now
@sneakysnakepie18 жыл бұрын
oh yeah in America most places have salt and snow. So there's even more lost. So now I wanna go and buy all of these cars
@heru-deshet3597 жыл бұрын
In Cuba they have corrosive sea salt. This means there isn't much original material left in the bodies of the vehicles.
@imandadkhah24263 жыл бұрын
I have been there in 2017
@masterlee12314 жыл бұрын
I wana see more
@greasers4life327 жыл бұрын
I wish i live in cuba but i live in montenegro and i am from Serbia my country in my heart
@Mikesautovideo7 жыл бұрын
hi my name is Mike i like these videos I have many used auto parts , wish i could advertise them in Cuba
@canadiancatgreen7 жыл бұрын
it is in a way sad that USA discriminated Cuba but it makes for some cool cars there too
@yutosi21097 жыл бұрын
that Ford Anglin in 8: 52 I have a buddy in Puerto Rico who is reparing one of those, and it still has the original paint. it's in great conditions, the dude is turning it into a dragster
@MrBopet13 жыл бұрын
Please upload the second part!!! ;)
@thesmithchannel61928 жыл бұрын
during the 1950s before 59 we sniped cars there since we cut them off that's what the been drivin since then
@thesmithchannel61928 жыл бұрын
wow I want to go there
@edithagacula-catadman1483 жыл бұрын
Im warning u that they're communists
@lord777terror10 жыл бұрын
so most of the cars in cuba are american cars that were left their from back then ?
@schmittdjeson6 жыл бұрын
*cuba cant saved classic cars for sale*
@sir4046 жыл бұрын
How can we get these cars back here. My friend just went and he said these old schools were used for taxis. Can u believe?
@canolaskies53069 жыл бұрын
So.. does this mean now cuba is going to throw everything out and fill up with modern cars?.. after all that time.
@Kohl4238 жыл бұрын
A mixture of rusting wrecks with a Honda engine under the bonnet and some absolute beauties with great engines under the hood that have got real go in them. I've been in both types, mostly Chevrolets of various ages. Thoroughly recommend you have a ride in these when you go to Cuba. At least one couple in Havana now have their own private business restoring and maintaining these chrome laden classics. Cuba is facing changing times. I just hope it's more for the good because they are wonderful people with a special culture. Someone once said "They have nothing & they have everything!" If you ever get to Cuba, and I don't just mean Havana (see the rest of the country) you will understand what I mean. As outsiders we can but hope that the changing cultural influence that will come from the US is mainly for the positive without the importation of corruption, drug trafficking and it's associated crime levels and that Cuba is not swamped by US domination. I don't mean that as an anti US rant because the Americans have so much to give. I just worry about what is special about Cuba. As you can guess. I LOVE the place!
@Ssv7148 жыл бұрын
song at 4 20?? plzzz i need it badly
@bruh-wh9mp7 жыл бұрын
GrandpaGohan Ay babe
@elcabezon54879 жыл бұрын
I see cubans didn't import East Germany P.O.S car,Trabant,I see Lada's and some polish models
@johnbockelie38994 жыл бұрын
Hey, in the 50's Fins were King!!!.
@27xhoni11 жыл бұрын
yhhh
@heru-deshet3597 жыл бұрын
The only thing classic about these vehicles are the shells. All internal components are a mish mash of Russian, homemade and cannibalized parts from other vehicles. They may look nice, but not worth much.
@MuslimsCantBeTrusted9 жыл бұрын
single headlights were outlawed after 1956, because when one element burned out, people drive around with the high beams on
@lincolnliow56918 жыл бұрын
wow I can't believe, Cuba still has too many classic cars.
@rogeramorine43912 жыл бұрын
I don't know where the guys got your information from just because cars showed up in 1957 with dual headlights that didn't mean they started in 1957 cars they're actually 58 models cars that sales started in September of 1957 but they're actually 1958 cars and as far as the Ford coming out with the Edsel it was not a fiasco it was a car design in honor of his son who had died so don't be so ignorant learn your facts
@jordanhill52389 жыл бұрын
I bet you there all stolen
@MuslimsCantBeTrusted9 жыл бұрын
they just said that most of them were left behind when people fled, clean the wax out of your ears!
@jordanhill52389 жыл бұрын
I wish I knew where you live
@MuslimsCantBeTrusted9 жыл бұрын
***** I'm still staying with your mom!
@jordanhill52389 жыл бұрын
Yeah it's real easy to talk shit behind a screen but try that shit to my face.