1955, 56, 57, 58 Chevy and 1959 Cadillac in Cuba 2010

One truly feels like they are back in time with these old cars surrounding them, being used everyday and not only for weekend or fair weather cruising. 5 years in a row of Chevy cars and a Cadillac. Featured is a 1958 Chevrolet convertible, a 1959 Cadillac convertible - the one featured elsewhere on this channel, a 1956 Chevy sedan, very nicely done up, with disc brakes and a Japanese diesel engine. Diesel fuel is much cheaper in Cuba then gasoline, and the job done to this car, hold on purists, is amazing down to the last nut and bolt. It even has disc brakes fitted. The 1955 and 1957 Chevy cars seen here too are as decently done up as circumstance will allow, and with what is available, and are anything but rolling wrecks. And these are the only ones allowed to carry foreigners or tourists. If a local is caught transporting tourists in a non-certified and approved car, then the car will be seized. Some of the cars used as 'collective taxis' that only the locals are quite sketchy, and have parts fitted even from tractors, etc to keep them rolling. Brake fluid, for example, is hard to get, so a home made concoction consisting of shampoo, water, and some sort of water soluble oil is used, and these 'collective taxis' used do not go fast enough to boil the mixture.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Old cars
• antique autos
• restored old cars
• American cars in foreign lands
• spikedpunk
• Old cars in the tropics
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• Cuban Classics
• Old cars in Cuba
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• sedan
• convertible
• Cadillac convertible
• 1959 Cadillac
• 1959 Cadillac convertible
• 1955 Chevy
• 1956 Chevy
• 1957 Chevy
• 1958 Chevy convertible

[spikedpunk]

@Radiowild Contrary to belief and from those who have never seen but state who say these cars are rusted out derelicts is anything but true, the majority have very solid bodies. But it can be said there are many that are very worn out and weathered, and this makes them look like total wrecks. But somehow they soldier on and on, needing a little bit of roadside coaxing here and there.

[Radiowild]

No Rust!