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Back to the street fauna
The streets of Havana can also be considered a museum in themselves ... although on many occasions almost "Of horrors." The car park in the capital is rich and varied because veterans of the time come together "Prerevolutionary" with the subsequent products sent by the Soviet Union, plus what in recent years has been arriving from Europe as donations.
Thus, the show of Cuban traffic We can summarize it like this: The most normal thing is to come across large "Beams" Americans from the 50s -Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth, etc-, but suddenly curiosities such as an Isetta microcar, a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia or a small Renault 4/4 may appear, since reasonable quantities of cars were also imported from Europe before 1959 .
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Moreover there are the russian products, the most common being the Lada from the 70s, 80s and 90s - similar in appearance to our Seat 124 - which exist in curious elongated 6-door variants ... and even in some cases having received the wings and front / rear of an old car 50's, to the surprise of anyone who tries to identify it.
The industrialists do not have waste either; The Russian Zil and Kamaz are very common, but you can also see strange Chinese brands and several Daf and Pegasus sent from Spain and Holland and that still wear their original posters of our cities, apart from the huge American products that we do not know how they have gone getting there during the "embargo" years.
And finally, the "Concoctions", which are almost as common as "identifiable" vehicles. These are a mixture of everything we have described above: Russian chassis, American bodies, Chinese engines ... anything goes to continue circulating, at least as long as the expected social and economic opening that allows Cubans the normalized purchase of new means of transportation does not take place.
More cars in Cuba (Photos by Unai Ona) ...
