As before all these posts read from the bottom up so scroll down to what you last remember reading and you'll be good!
If you love old cars then you'll love Havana - Ford's Pontiac's Chevvy's Dodge's Plymouth's Oldsmobile's and more - some falling apart some in great shape -
Most of them are taxis now - the nicer ones taking tourists on rides along the seafront - the beat up ones working the routes back and forth across the city They are called "Ruteros" - they run set routes collecting and depositing people as they go - not as cheap as the bus but a lot faster
Often the bodywork is a multicolored patchwork of different paint colours and filler - the engines are another story - not many are original - the Rutureos could never afford to run their routes on petrol so it's a diesel conversion or a new modern engine
What is really great to see is the original badges and bonnet art...
The cars have few of the original fittings inside - certainly no seatbelts which keeps your fingers crossed when you are flying along the Malecon at 60! Es Cuba!
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