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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by fat49chevy, Apr 25, 2011.

  1. fat49chevy
    Joined: Sep 8, 2006
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    fat49chevy
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    from Onta Ca

    Might be a good thing.
    (Newser) – Cuba is making moves to give citizens more economic freedom, specifically the right to buy and sell homes and cars for the first time. CNN takes note and wonders what that might mean for all those classic Buicks, Plymouths, and Pontiacs cruising the nation's roads. They still exist because of an old law put in place by Fidel Castro that allows ctizens to buy and sell only cars that were on the road before his 1959 revolution.

    If the reforms go into place, plenty of Cubans are expected to try to sell their old rides and get a modern car for the first time. One Cuban who has turned his 1952 Plymouth into a taxi thinks the vintage cars are safe, though. "If these cars didn't exist, not as many foreigners would come to Cuba to drive around in them and take pictures."
     
  2. fiftyv8
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    fiftyv8
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    from CO & WA

  3. garagerods
    Joined: Dec 15, 2006
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    garagerods
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    from Omaha

    Cuban cars and cigars!

    ....a good thing!!!
     
  4. fiftyv8
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    fiftyv8
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    from CO & WA

  5. fiftyv8
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    fiftyv8
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    from CO & WA


    Dont forget the smell of the coffee as well!!!
     
  6. thesupersized
    Joined: Aug 22, 2004
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    from what i understand, a lot of those cubans actually like their old american cars, therefore, i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them held on to them...
     

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