Images of old Cars ( Pre 1959 ) CUBA

[BranislavDJ]

Those cars are ... beautiful. D:

<:3 I want them so badly.

[Olgevin]

наши тачки

[alexsuchapimp]

me gusta el paize de CUBA!

[mrpersonccc]

songs is called "a caballo vamos pal monte"

pretty impressive considering I don't even speak spanish and found that out by googling what the song repeats "a caballo" and scanning the results for the one that looked most like what i was hearing!

pats self on back

[thaihungthinh]

cubans have better driving habits, no creased fenders here. thanks for sharing.

[jc91596]

is 2:01 a moscovich? i just started trying to learn about old cars so i need you all to see if i am right, so i can learn, is the one at 2:13 a car from the 40's, is 2:27 a chevy bel air from 1955, and i am pretty sure 2:51 is a dodge coronet from 1958, the one following is a plymouth from 1957, so am i right?

[masterlee123]

love this song

[DetroitLove4U]

I hear it's the same way in Singapore. A lot of old vehicles from pre-1959 are driven there largely. I had a cousin that worked for the U.S. Embassy in Singapore for a couple of years and he told me that. I've always known this about Cuba. I know when they forbid American currencies in Cuba in the late 40's or 50's along side tourism - they had a casino out there that many renowned Americans went to prior to and Cuba thereafter made some high denomination notes - such currencies were failures.

[scottishlowoflow]

actually the Cubans could buy cars it's just that European cars and Far Eastern cars are far too expensive for them ($15 US per month that'd take about 34 years to save up for and that's for a used bottom of the range car) so these cars have stayed at the same price number (somewhere around 1950 these would have cost about $500 or something similar and they have been traded on that price since then. Cuba doesn't have the same inflation as the rest of the world except Japan

[The391956]

@scottishlowoflow The Europeans who want old 1950s and 1940s American cars could sell the Cubans a used bottom of the range car worth say $4000. to $6000. for a old Classic that would be worth $10,000. and can be restored and be worth $25,000. to $125,000. depending which it is. Only old car collectors would want to do that and that would help the Cubans have a newer cars. I did not mean sell I meant trade the bottom range used cars for the classics which car collectors want to fix

[fum2006]

I understand there is an embargo of cars from America but why can't the Cubans by new(er) cars from Japan like the rest of Central America?

[condorjmp01]

Gracias por compartir esas lindas fotos, no ay duda que en cuba ay los carros mas caros y antiguos del Mundo, suerte Hermanos Cubanos saludos desde Ecuador.

[crushingvanessa]

Cubans have to hold onto older stuff, everyone else just has a throw away attitude. Other countries have alot to learn, including my country, Canada.

[mohansen11]

@crushingvanessa, You are so right! Not only have the Cubans continued to hold on to their cars, they have figured out ways to keep them running with Russian and Japanese cars parts when American parts could no longer be imported from the U.S. (my country). Though the UAW and CAW would consider this position blasphemy, I'm with you, we could ALL learn a lot from Cuba's example.

[KapteinOpel]

2.20 A Mercedes 180 B?

[smartimarti68]

@KapteinOpel Siiiiiiiiiiii Gracias

[sovietvorshtain]

super cars

[tamiyatruck]

we cubans take care of cars because thats what we have. and we could imbent from a little thing to a big one

[icrails]

The main reason the cubans value the cars is they have no choice due to the lack of new ones.

[Obsoliit]

now why can't americans value their older cars like the Cubans do????

[jake03446]

Oh we do my friend. We just don't drive them in bad weather. Cubans get a lot more nice weather than we do. I also think that many Cubans are expert mechanics and welders. :)

[NYbeerdude]

Are you really that dumb? The Cubans DONT value those old cars - they CANT BUY NEW ONES because of the embargo, GENIUS! And they can't make their own cars under COMMUNISM.

[masterlee123]

Beautiful.

[ontcan1]

Well done!  Should have music credit though...

[JohnBarnesHelper]

A lot of interesting old vehicles in this video.

[dave98503]

Viva Fidel!

[dave98503]

Viva Fidel!