While pulling together information on the Plymouth that won the Autos Clasicos show in Cuba, we came across Cuban Classics , a blog that seems intent on cataloging every one of the old cars still ply...
1959 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sport Sedan. Image via The Old Car Manual Project. It seems like every time we write about a car, we find something to love about that car–even if its nothing we’...
In our study of present-day Cuban cars made possible by the photos brought back by U.S. visitors to the island, we’ve tried to focus on the lesser-known cars, the ones that might not ply the major to...
All photos by Gordon Rinschler. Over the last couple of years, the AACA has organized at least a couple “Taillight Diplomacy” trips to Cuba with pretty much the same aim as the posts we’ve been assem...
Photo courtesy Gavin in the UK. Regulations passed last month designed to ease trade restrictions with Cuba could permit the Forties and Fifties American cars still prowling the streets of Havana to ...
Photos courtesy Gavin in the UK. Continuing our effort to document the old cars of Cuba as they are now, before the country embraces modernization and before the cars themselves break down one last t...
Photos courtesy Gavin in the UK. Continuing our effort to document the old cars of Cuba as they are now, before the country embraces modernization and before the cars themselves break down one last t...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research recent...
Photos courtesy Maria Sokola. It’s tempting to think that if the old cars of Cuba survived the decades until now, they’ll be around forever. They’re timeless, right? They’re a cultural institution, w...
Miguel Llorente is the former curator of the Al Ain Classic Car Museum in the UAE, but he’s also the explorer that “discovered” the Cuban Gullwing. His dream is to open a new museum, the “Petersen of...