I remember going to Cuba once when I was a kid. One of the bigger highlights of my trip was getting to ride in the rumble seat of a '30s ford coupe taxi!
10:26 looks like a dodge Mayfair? “Plodge” Dodge front end on a 1958 Plymouth. I also thought those were Canadian market only so it’s interesting to see one there.
The older cars like these were simple mechanical devices. Easy to understand and fix with simple tools. Parts were simple and you could cobble them together with bits and pieces of metal and a bit of creativity. I used to fix my old cars like these Cubans do. These new cars full of technology have no future. Tinkering can't fix them. When bad times come..and they will...Cubans and old guys with old cars will drive.. the new rich with their computerized bricks will be walking..
I loved my time down there being a car guy , The people were great old Habana was awesome , nothing but joy comes to mind when I remember that trip . I feel bad for the folks there dealing with a tough situation today. Thanks for the video.
Обратил внимание, что хотя на многих машинах стоят не оригинальные детали, все они очень аккуратные и отлично окрашены, не видно ободранных и помятых экземпляров и это очень впечатляет, как и сохранность самого автопарка.😊
Looking inside the 1948 Chevy it looks like it was converted from Manual to Auto. Very nice 😃.. Looks like some of the door handels need repaired though.
The motorcycles with 2-stroke engines would generate another video of their own. I observed many in this video, while in the rest of the world they were almost extinct from the streets.
Stuff like this is why I love cars and went to School to become a Mechanic, the things people are able to do with soo little astonishes me! I don't want a new car, I just want to keep mine running as long as I can!
Super! True ecology, using one vehicle for 60-70 years and not producing a new one every 5 years. The art of being able to make something out of nothing, adapt it. You are a mechanic, not just a parts changer. You have to make it work. Unfortunately, in Poland our mechanics are lazy === if something isn't in the store and the courier is not going to deliver it to you, they won't fix it. There are no parts, go find another workshop, we won't waste our time on it. WTF. Take it from another car, modify it, cut something, weld something. An old-school mechanic, until the mid-1990s === MacGyver. Now everyone is taking the easiest way out 😞
Sanctions are bad but in the case of Cuba it has created unique tourist attraction, but as soon as (if) the borders are opened, all this automotive heritage will be destroyed in months.
@yurakovia Возможно. Но у прицепа (по крайней мере у полевой кухни) колëса обычно от газона (51 или 53). У газона колесо крепится на 6 гайках. А у ЗИЛа - на 8. Посмотрите в интернете (или живьём, если рядом с Вами есть эти легендарные грузовики) и сравните. Эти колëса изначально от ЗИЛа. Кстати, я видел прицепные жилые вагончики (домики на колëсах) с такими же колëсами. Как у ЗИЛа.
@НавсёПровсё-й8к можно копнуть глубже и увидеть что-то похожее на полуторках и зисах. Но мне кажется из прицепа проще сделать такую тачанку, чем колхозить колёса от грузовика, или не дай бог целый мост))
@yurakovia Про мост согласен. Даже у жигуля он сам по себе тяжëлый. А про грузовики даже подумать страшно. Я видел, как некоторые укорачивают (сужают) задние балки от переднеприводных авто и получают тележки с колëсами от легковушки. Довольно проходимая конструкция.
This is miracle in Croatia where i live these cars are impossible to find even in technical museum but in cuba yes cuba would be good for making movies that Kind of car Will not passed on technical examination
from what i know most of these had the engines replaced by soviet ones, they're definitely not original and lifting the bonnet reveals that pretty quickly, and btw, many soviet cars can also be seen there, noticed quite a few Moskvichs, 2107's and 2101's (known by the russians as Zhiguli's) also noticed many modern modifications to these vehicles, such as LED lights and modern seats, they're far from original, but given the situation, you have to work with what you got, seen also several modern vehicles there, but i'd guess these are mostly inacessible for the average person living there
With all the old american cars in NZ, Im surprised how little you know about them [well, you made a vid. about them in Cuba] Better ones st home, mostly without later added Diesels & everything else changed under the rusted out metal. Cheers NZ
As a veteran of 17 trips to Cuba over 18 years, the cars are one of my favourite parts of Cuba. The “tourist cars” are generally in great shape, the “local” cars, not so much. Cuba now is in worse shape than I’ve ever seen it. On my last trip in 2023 there was scarce food at the resort, shortages of everything. And that was before the electricity crisis. The viscious American Embargo amounts to a slow motion genocide of the Cuban people. No other country in the world, be it communist or democracy is persecuted as badly as Cuba is by the ever-increasing America inhumanity.
He also stares at a plastic go-cart steering wheel, driftwood fabricated turn signal, 3 different kinds of commercial bus seats and just plain rubber liner sheets hanging for door panels and repeated "ORIGINAL, THIS IS ALL ORIGINAL" hes a dumbass
This is do to one them replacing the metal, two older cars having more "Meat" on them so you can sand the rust off and tons of polish with any oil they can get their hands on.
Most of the cars in Cuba are shite! But no fault of any of the people. Typically it's the leaders on both sides. But the poor people wear it all. Term's of car's these people have no choices, new cars and car parts stopped coming into the country over 60 years ago. People keep their cars running whatever way possible, Cadillacs with old diesel engines etc..
You’re wrong: They voted and support Fidel Castro. That’s the results of it . Same thing in Venezuela. They got brain washed. Now the army elite are the bosses. Like a mafia .
@@redemptionjack4657 Aha, so parts from Toyota for 1950's period US makes. Like Cadillac, Lincoln, Imperial, Buick, Thunder Bird, New Yorker. . . . . .AHA. So what was "wrong" with my opinion??
None of the old American relics in Cuba has the original engine any longer. Engines was by government mandate designed to last roughly 60.000 miles before a major overhaul was needed.
youd be surprised how they keep some of them barely running, yeah a lot got swapped with diesels and whatever they could smash into one but you can make these engines run for quite a long time, just very terribly, but still running.
I see a few decent 20 footers, but even the red Catalina is probably a rust bucket under all that bubbling bondo. And I doubt any of them still have their original engines as all I've seen are diesel transplants. They are very resourceful people to keep these cars on the road.
all theses cars ar far from original. most cars have been converted with soviet car parts and do not even sit on original frames in some cases, like a body swap. and most are diesel now.
Hahaha, nowhere in the world police looks under the bonnet 😂. Guess it just has to look nice, doesn't matter it's made up of cars from 50 different car brands 👌.
The only worthy vehicles I see are the Land Cruisers at 7:54. Rest is trash covered in kilos of bondo. That ugly town looks exactly like their cars!!! LoL.
As a mechanic I always admire the ingenuity what they can build with nothing
👍👍👍
American mechanics could build parts too but why would they when you could get OEM parts shipped to your house for cheaper
@charlesgale4257
No they can't.
There's a difference between mechanics & machinists.
These guys do it all.
@@charlesgale4257
Very few American Mechanics.
I remember going to Cuba once when I was a kid.
One of the bigger highlights of my trip was getting to ride in the rumble seat of a '30s ford coupe taxi!
guarantee this 30s ford coupe is powered by a 4 cyl diesel and still on the road today and decades to come!
A dodge with a Mercedes 6 cylinder diesel built by Ssangyong? Amazing.
small correction that makes it even more amazing: it's a 5 cylinder.
I once watched a video where a Cuban man made a new fender from a oil drum by hand...it looked good too!!
Glad to see so many of these old USA cars still driven and liked by all.
Awesome video thanks for posting. Great 🎥 👋
10:26 looks like a dodge Mayfair? “Plodge” Dodge front end on a 1958 Plymouth.
I also thought those were Canadian market only so it’s interesting to see one there.
I thought that too
Definitely a 1958-59 Chrysler product.
Also made for export markets.
Been to Cuba many times and so many classics! Hello from Miami's Classic car scene!
GREAT DOCUMENTAL OF CUBA, NOT ONE HAS SHOW ME CUBA LIKE THIS!
Once one of Latin America's most beautiful and wealthy, today a totally ransacked dystopia serving as human zoo.
Thank the sanctions for that buddy
That’s what sanctions do.
Sanctions plus Socialism equals economic failure.
No, thank Communism.
@@onz76 this comment is the equivalent to hitting someone in the face with their hand and telling them to stop hitting themselves
My parents married in the year 1955. Their bridal cars were Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe models , just like some of these ones in this video.
That red 58 dodge is my favorite.. and I love the 57 desoto wagon
Cuba is such a place! Where else can you find so much both old USSR and US Cars and not so much modern cars too
Thanks for the Grand Tour of old American cars. Love Love your accent!!
The older cars like these were simple mechanical devices. Easy to understand and fix with simple tools. Parts were simple and you could cobble them together with bits and pieces of metal and a bit of creativity. I used to fix my old cars like these Cubans do. These new cars full of technology have no future. Tinkering can't fix them. When bad times come..and they will...Cubans and old guys with old cars will drive.. the new rich with their computerized bricks will be walking..
The wild west mixed with the 50s and a bit of 21s century. I know a lot of people are very poor but damn this is such a vibe.
Cuba probably has the best machinist in the world keeping these cars going
I loved my time down there being a car guy , The people were great old Habana was awesome , nothing but joy comes to mind when I remember that trip . I feel bad for the folks there dealing with a tough situation today. Thanks for the video.
This reminds me a bit of Bucharest in the 80's with all of the Skoda's, Lada's, Trabant's and Dacia's really nice.
Cada cual con su gusto..qesten corriendo todavia es extraordinario..y la hojalateria y pintura es de calidad.
This is amazing it is like a time war back in the 50's and 60s with all of the old cars and horse drawn carriages.
Обратил внимание, что хотя на многих машинах стоят не оригинальные детали, все они очень аккуратные и отлично окрашены, не видно ободранных и помятых экземпляров и это очень впечатляет, как и сохранность самого автопарка.😊
Looking inside the 1948 Chevy it looks like it was converted from Manual to Auto. Very nice 😃.. Looks like some of the door handels need repaired though.
The motorcycles with 2-stroke engines would generate another video of their own. I observed many in this video, while in the rest of the world they were almost extinct from the streets.
❤❤❤❤ I love old usa cars, and loock Havanna 😊😊😊😊
how did a peugeot 205 make it to cuba
Stuff like this is why I love cars and went to School to become a Mechanic, the things people are able to do with soo little astonishes me! I don't want a new car, I just want to keep mine running as long as I can!
Please ignore the modern cars and motorcycles in the background.
Super! True ecology, using one vehicle for 60-70 years and not producing a new one every 5 years. The art of being able to make something out of nothing, adapt it. You are a mechanic, not just a parts changer. You have to make it work. Unfortunately, in Poland our mechanics are lazy === if something isn't in the store and the courier is not going to deliver it to you, they won't fix it. There are no parts, go find another workshop, we won't waste our time on it. WTF. Take it from another car, modify it, cut something, weld something. An old-school mechanic, until the mid-1990s === MacGyver. Now everyone is taking the easiest way out 😞
Same at Latvia
Not a single original engine but bodies kept in such nice shapes many times
Sanctions are bad but in the case of Cuba it has created unique tourist attraction, but as soon as (if) the borders are opened, all this automotive heritage will be destroyed in months.
Crazy how many different brands are there I saw a Lada, Peugeot, toyota, caddilac. Almost every country that made a car is there lol
Awesome video mate 🤘🙌 thanks for sharing 🇳🇿
No problem 👍
Love the forties.
2:30 the wheels are from russian zil 130.
7:17 the white car on the left is russian lada 2101.
Нет, это колёса от какого то прицепа (например кухня) или пушки зис-3.
@yurakovia Возможно. Но у прицепа (по крайней мере у полевой кухни) колëса обычно от газона (51 или 53). У газона колесо крепится на 6 гайках. А у ЗИЛа - на 8. Посмотрите в интернете (или живьём, если рядом с Вами есть эти легендарные грузовики) и сравните. Эти колëса изначально от ЗИЛа.
Кстати, я видел прицепные жилые вагончики (домики на колëсах) с такими же колëсами. Как у ЗИЛа.
@НавсёПровсё-й8к можно копнуть глубже и увидеть что-то похожее на полуторках и зисах. Но мне кажется из прицепа проще сделать такую тачанку, чем колхозить колёса от грузовика, или не дай бог целый мост))
@yurakovia Про мост согласен. Даже у жигуля он сам по себе тяжëлый. А про грузовики даже подумать страшно. Я видел, как некоторые укорачивают (сужают) задние балки от переднеприводных авто и получают тележки с колëсами от легковушки. Довольно проходимая конструкция.
Many of these are running diesel engines. Isuzu are popular donars.
looks like tjauna Mexico 1960 meets New Orleans some interesting car mods @7:51. 9:13 lada? or soviet fiats ? 10:06 engine is ? 11:04 make ?
10:00 is A Ssanyong engine..Korean
9:13 - yes sir.
10:06 is just a rebadged Mercedes OM602 5 cylinder diesel. Extremely reliable and fuel efficient engine from the 80s.
This is miracle in Croatia where i live these cars are impossible to find even in technical museum but in cuba yes cuba would be good for making movies that Kind of car Will not passed on technical examination
0:10 not sure what engine that is but definitely not original
0:58 steering wheel and seats are definitely not original
Some sort of 4 cylinder marine diesel
from what i know most of these had the engines replaced by soviet ones, they're definitely not original and lifting the bonnet reveals that pretty quickly, and btw, many soviet cars can also be seen there, noticed quite a few Moskvichs, 2107's and 2101's (known by the russians as Zhiguli's)
also noticed many modern modifications to these vehicles, such as LED lights and modern seats, they're far from original, but given the situation, you have to work with what you got, seen also several modern vehicles there, but i'd guess these are mostly inacessible for the average person living there
What happened with the coupes and convertibles?
It’s great how they keep them going. But a 1948 Chevy did not come with an alternator.
It's not the original engine
@@alfabeech He states several times during the walk around. "All Original" Obviously it isn't
I think it was a lada engine possibly
Are they still on the hot sheet
It looks like ZIS 110 mixed with GAZ M20
With all the old american cars in NZ, Im surprised how little you know about them [well, you made a vid. about them in Cuba] Better ones st home, mostly without later added Diesels & everything else changed under the rusted out metal. Cheers NZ
He sounds like a drugged kiwi
Yeah definitely not a car guy...
All original 👌👌👌. And they all have the same bolt pattern on the axles and numerous paint layers 😂.
*_Life could be dream_*
De volta ao passado anos 30 40 e 50 a vanguarda do atraso
Cubans has way cooler cars than us.
Cuba has two classes, wealthy and poor.
No sir/mme - privileged communist party members and the rest of thd folk...
The West is going the same way.
Yep, and the USA is well on the way to the same situation.
The poor & the communists
We already have wealthy and poor so idk what your talking about@@boataxe4605
All the cars in cuba are a mix match of parts of 50 different cars😂
they're still living in the 1960s damn
You don't need new cars to get around, the old ones run just fine, just take care of them!
Most of these cars barely run and only do because they have been rebuilt 50 times 😂
As a veteran of 17 trips to Cuba over 18 years, the cars are one of my favourite parts of Cuba. The “tourist cars” are generally in great shape, the “local” cars, not so much. Cuba now is in worse shape than I’ve ever seen it. On my last trip in 2023 there was scarce food at the resort, shortages of everything. And that was before the electricity crisis. The viscious American Embargo amounts to a slow motion genocide of the Cuban people. No other country in the world, be it communist or democracy is persecuted as badly as Cuba is by the ever-increasing America inhumanity.
Amazing these places exist where people drive classic cars daily, no shitty modern cars no bullshit
I think toyota Corolla would be a luxury there
Original but shows an alternator...
He also stares at a plastic go-cart steering wheel, driftwood fabricated turn signal, 3 different kinds of commercial bus seats and just plain rubber liner sheets hanging for door panels and repeated "ORIGINAL, THIS IS ALL ORIGINAL" hes a dumbass
Its not an original engine, anyway people upgrade from generators to alternators on a lot of old cars.
Damn. The 1940 Cadi was beautiful.
Gördüğüm en iyi küba arabaları videosu👍 , iyi çalışma,
Burt Munro ya benzerliğin şaşırtıcı,aynı köydensiniz galiba😋
No rust on these cars?? My 2012 ram front fenders flapping in the wind like chitty chitty bang bang movie. Rust bucket!!!
This is do to one them replacing the metal, two older cars having more "Meat" on them so you can sand the rust off and tons of polish with any oil they can get their hands on.
Also depends on if they salt roads in winter
Dude they are in cuba ... do you know where that is?
@1988Dodgeit's Cuba buddy it doesn't snow😂
@@Jacobtheunwise I didn’t mean it like that lol I was talking about the guy who said his truck was a rust bucket
The only thing original on that car, the first one is the body
No such thing as a trailer queen in that country.
Honestly they just try to keep these heaps running with whatever they have close at hand.. clapped out beaters at best.
Chiv-----roolay???
The non American engines kinda take the joy out of it
As ruas parecem do Rio de Janeiro.
No way that's the original motor.
2:16 about 1947-48
That Cadillac 1940, para mi puede competir a nivel mundial #.Pontiac..Catalina convertible,una joya.
Sounds and looks like the original engines have been replaced by diesel ones….
This car old bodies with new gen engibnes
Shame on their government.
No EV's overthere. very nice...
It seems like hot rods and customs are a way of life in Cuba !
Yea mate New Zealand mate ya ya ha hahaha
Most of the cars in Cuba are shite! But no fault of any of the people. Typically it's the leaders on both sides. But the poor people wear it all. Term's of car's these people have no choices, new cars and car parts stopped coming into the country over 60 years ago. People keep their cars running whatever way possible, Cadillacs with old diesel engines etc..
Check your spelling ❗️🇺🇸
You’re wrong:
They voted and support Fidel Castro. That’s the results of it .
Same thing in Venezuela. They got brain washed.
Now the army elite are the bosses. Like a mafia .
@@ralphbillick1210 you're a sad soul.
Wrong they do get parts from Toyota.
@@redemptionjack4657 Aha, so parts from Toyota for 1950's period US makes. Like Cadillac, Lincoln, Imperial, Buick, Thunder Bird, New Yorker. . . . . .AHA. So what was "wrong" with my opinion??
The spoiled brat kids in America could not live like these poor people have to.
None of the old American relics in Cuba has the original engine any longer. Engines was by government mandate designed to last roughly 60.000 miles before a major overhaul was needed.
Some have original rebuilt engines. Most are diesel conversions.
Toyota diesel motor was replaced in it
youd be surprised how they keep some of them barely running, yeah a lot got swapped with diesels and whatever they could smash into one but you can make these engines run for quite a long time, just very terribly, but still running.
I see a few decent 20 footers, but even the red Catalina is probably a rust bucket under all that bubbling bondo. And I doubt any of them still have their original engines as all I've seen are diesel transplants. They are very resourceful people to keep these cars on the road.
original, no no no....
Que bien 👍
All the paint rolled on. No spray paint.
You obviusly know nothing of cars man… I’m sorry but nothing about these old relics are original anymore.
The second you spoke, i knew you are from here in nz.
See a 58 goldflash in amongst it. Noice.
Thanks mate
Russia new cuba
Most of if not all run off of forklift engines now.
На Кубе авто не ездят а плывут😂
É isso ai wue o lula quer para o Brasil
O Bozo golpista queria isso para o Brasil 😮😢
Shitty "Frankenstein" vehicles. Nothing to "admire" here, except for the supreme great mechanics that manage to keep them running.
all theses cars ar far from original. most cars have been converted with soviet car parts and do not even sit on original frames in some cases, like a body swap. and most are diesel now.
Why pretend a country so broke it’s people drive 80 year old cars is great.
Gta V with traffic mod
Fresh paint over rust and bondo.
Even that Catalina was a POS.
The bad bodywork and rust was obvious.
Who still thinks socialism is a good idea?
If it's so bad, why doesn't the USA remove the killer embargo? Strange isn't it?
Hahaha, nowhere in the world police looks under the bonnet 😂. Guess it just has to look nice, doesn't matter it's made up of cars from 50 different car brands 👌.
Old American Cars with russian engines 😆
Disana masih THN 1950 ya jadul bgt mobil nya 😂😂😂
The only worthy vehicles I see are the Land Cruisers at 7:54. Rest is trash covered in kilos of bondo.
That ugly town looks exactly like their cars!!! LoL.
You are lame
You are lame also your country caused this so your fault its like this
They're 65 year old cars, what did you expect?
GTA Cuba
Scarface 2 Back to Cuba
Sad(
O carro vermelho era o único que prestava.