If it is old cars people want to see they need to go to Detroit in the summer.
Posted on 04/14/2015 11:09:17 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Edited on 04/14/2015 1:32:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Cuba is not like other places, or rather, not like anywhere that exists today.
To some outsiders, it looks firmly stuck in the 1950s. Vintage cars roam the streets, the landscape is absent of strip malls and global chains, and the buildings -- though crumbling -- hark back to a grander time.
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I’ve heard some old car enthusiasts are interested in seeing all the old cars in Cuba.
But then, isn’t it true that the old cars there are rusting hulks, still on the road with mismatched replacement parts and badly faded peeling paint jobs??? Not exactly in mint condition.
And Americans who go there get the “Thereisienstadt” tour version of Cuba.
Proof positive that Leftist and progressives are statists and snobs.
We want iPhones, electricity and modern conveniences, but how corrupted those poor people of Cuba are to want to improve their lives as well
Johnny Ola told me about that place....
I also was not serious. I would not set foot in Cuba.
Oh, they didn’t interview the child prostitutes or the pimps!
Or they didn’t interview some of the gays who have been persecuted there for years.
And, yes, the capitalistic borg will dramatically change Cuba forever, like it always does. People will comment on how much better it is, and others will wish for the good ol days of the past.
Everyone fears once the sanctions drop, Havana will essentially turn into San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’s going to be so weird seeing Old Havana completely restored and all those old American cars replaced by Fiat Palio and Volkswagen Fox models.
How quaint. Poverty tourism.
If hipsters and these other losers lived back in the 50s they would claim pre-Castro Cuba with its modern cars and top notch architecture lost the quaintness of when people used to travel by donkey pulled cart.
If it is old cars people want to see they need to go to Detroit in the summer.
Too bad we didn’t have a Stazi or secret police to keep East Tennessee/Western North Carolina a hillbilly museum.
At the bottom left of the photo.
A Chevy Nova.
I had that car back in the day. Bought it for $600, and literally gave it away.
It looks like a 69’.
I loved that car.
The CNN news team that reported this are a bunch of either ideologues or idiots, or both.
idiot leftist idealogues
I had a ‘67 Nova like the yellow one in the upper right. Extremely difficult to find parts for it even before it was 20 years old. I never should have spent the time and money that I did on it. Live, learn, and pay.
I’ll visit Cuba right after I visit North Korea, Iran and Afghanistan...
I had a blue 69 4 door Nova. Loved it.
My first car was a 1974 metallic blue Chevy Nova. It cost me $2,994 brand new and I bought it in Detroit because it was $332 cheaper than buying it in Flint. It was a hatchback and we camped in it.
It would be quaint if it were not the fact that nothing has been upgraded, maintained or repaired since 1959 either.
There used to be a web site called the real Cuba that compared pictures of Cuban landmarks and infrastructure from the 1950s to the year 2000
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