By Tom Cotter,Stirling Moss,Bill Warner

ISBN-10: 0760350264

ISBN-13: 9780760350263

Welcome to Cuba's automobile time tablet, packed with vintage cars.

The tale of ways Cuba got here to be trapped in car time is an engaging one. for many years, the island state had loved fit tourism alternate and American outpost prestige, and by way of the Nineteen Fifties it had the top according to capita car deciding to buy of any Latin American nation - its center type ensured an engaging number of cars plying the roads. but if Cuba fell to communist rebels in 1959, so ended the influx of latest vehicles. because then, exchange embargo pressured Cuba's motor vehicle fans to strengthen a special and insular tradition, one marked by means of nice creativity, such as:

Keeping a vehicle alive with out chance to obtain alternative parts

Customizing a vehicle without entry to aftermarket parts

Drag racing with out drag strip

In some ways, Cuba is an car time warp, the place the most recent automobile is a 1959 Chevy or maybe one of many Soviet Ladas. Cuba's vehicle tradition deals an within examine a special motor vehicle tradition, populated with autos which were bring to a halt from the area goodbye that they have morphed into whatever else within the spirit of automobile survival.

Authors Tom Cotter and invoice Warner (founder of the Amelia Island Concours) take readers of Cuba's motor vehicle tradition on a whirlwind journey of all issues car, starting with Cuba's pre-Castro automobile and racing background and bringing us as much as contemporary misplaced collector vehicles, highway racing, and the demanding situations of holding decades-old vehicles at the street. The publication is illustrated all through with infrequent historic images in addition to modern images of Cuba's present automobile scene. For a person who enjoys vintage vehicles, from previous Chevy Bel-Airs to Studebakers to Ford Fairlanes, a cruise round Cuba will make you are feeling like a child in a sweet store.

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