Reaching out to Cuba

[simplemoss]

Just wondering why they still have all those old cars from the 50s.

Couldn't Brezhnev have shipped a few Trabies there back in the 70s ??? WTF ??

The soviets did send cars too Cuba, only about 1/3rd of their cars are American cars from the fifties ("Yank tanks")

Many cars were imported from the Soviets and more recently China but they're for public use only, meaning the government buys them for the country and then decides who gets them ususally it would be the higher ups in the Cuban Communist party. The cars aren't technically your property you need special permission from the government too even sell your car.

In fact police officers will stop cars on the street and order drivers too give rides too hitchhikers they actually have designated hitchhiking stops like bus stops. Since the car is not your property you have too give them a ride ususally for a small fee.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yank_tank

These days almost every Yank tank has Soviet replacement parts.