Cuban "Classics"
12-19-2014, 01:37 PM
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I know a half dozen collectors who have been making regular trips to Cuba the past few years. They've scouted out all the good cars and probably have deposits down on them.
Now it seems they can finally ship them back to the states.
btw - Air Tran (Delta) has been running daily Miami to Havana flights for years. None of this is a surprise - except to members of Congress (the dumbest group of people in the United States.)
Tampa will be competing with Miami for your shipping business. You better book the next flight out of Miami. There are a couple of Cuban Corvettes but they may have already been sold.
Richard Newton
Now it seems they can finally ship them back to the states.
btw - Air Tran (Delta) has been running daily Miami to Havana flights for years. None of this is a surprise - except to members of Congress (the dumbest group of people in the United States.)
Tampa will be competing with Miami for your shipping business. You better book the next flight out of Miami. There are a couple of Cuban Corvettes but they may have already been sold.
Richard Newton
12-19-2014, 09:09 PM
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St. Jude Donor '14
Cuban cigars yes 
Cuban cars NO!
Don't fool yourselves into thinking anything from Cuba is numbers matching and worth a dollar. You're better off buying a Russian Lada from there...at least that's an exotic. Back to the Cuban cigars...
:fl ag:
Cuban cars NO! Don't fool yourselves into thinking anything from Cuba is numbers matching and worth a dollar. You're better off buying a Russian Lada from there...at least that's an exotic. Back to the Cuban cigars...:fl ag:
12-19-2014, 09:15 PM
#23
Back to Cuba
Better dust off my Ricky Ricardo bongo drums and puffy sleeved shirts!
Dandy Don
12-20-2014, 09:08 PM
#24
Safety Car
All of the major resorts in the world are already in Cuba. Keep in mind that everyone in the world does business in Cuba. They have never been isolated. The US was the only country that avoided Cuba.
Maybe we were the isolated one. It sure seems that way.
Maybe they need an Autozone? Most of the counter people in Florida are already bilingual. We're ready to go.
Richard
Maybe we were the isolated one. It sure seems that way.
Maybe they need an Autozone? Most of the counter people in Florida are already bilingual. We're ready to go.
Richard
12-21-2014, 03:46 AM
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St. Jude Donor '07
All of the major resorts in the world are already in Cuba. Keep in mind that everyone in the world does business in Cuba. They have never been isolated. The US was the only country that avoided Cuba.
Maybe we were the isolated one. It sure seems that way.
Maybe they need an Autozone? Most of the counter people in Florida are already bilingual. We're ready to go.
Richard
Maybe we were the isolated one. It sure seems that way.
Maybe they need an Autozone? Most of the counter people in Florida are already bilingual. We're ready to go.
Richard
12-21-2014, 04:20 AM
#26
Team Owner
Ha Ha everyone!
I am already booked on the first flight ahead of you all!
12-21-2014, 08:29 AM
#27
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They owe us after dumping all of their criminals on our shores a few decades back....watch Al Pacino in Scarface to get an inkling. "Let me introduce you to my lil' friend".... [sound of chattering machine gun]...
12-21-2014, 08:45 AM
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We were in Cuba maybe 10 years ago and I do not recall seeing many older cars that I would just have to have sitting in my garage. Lots of four door stuff chicken wired together.
I will not go back there, I just found it to be an unfriendly place to visit. Perhaps the people had reason to be angry but right from the moment we arrived at immigration I knew this was not going to work out so well. I think the plane out of Toronto was at least half full of Americans. Apparently the Cubans did not stamp their passports, they stamped ours.
The cigars are good, if you like strong cigars. I took a pocket full of Cohibas (sp) to a sales meeting in Chicago one time. Handed them out to the dedicated cigar smokers and they really did not like them. Much too strong compared to the Dominican stuff they were used to.
I will not go back there, I just found it to be an unfriendly place to visit. Perhaps the people had reason to be angry but right from the moment we arrived at immigration I knew this was not going to work out so well. I think the plane out of Toronto was at least half full of Americans. Apparently the Cubans did not stamp their passports, they stamped ours.
The cigars are good, if you like strong cigars. I took a pocket full of Cohibas (sp) to a sales meeting in Chicago one time. Handed them out to the dedicated cigar smokers and they really did not like them. Much too strong compared to the Dominican stuff they were used to.
12-21-2014, 09:47 AM
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Burning Brakes
not much left in those cuban beauties (the cars!!!, and most are running tractor/industrial engine components...
what concerns me is cuba again becoming a country of haves/have nots. casinos and developers will be in droves and will suck up all the 'good stuff' and leave the dregs to the 'natives', just like many other of the caribbean islands...
what concerns me is cuba again becoming a country of haves/have nots. casinos and developers will be in droves and will suck up all the 'good stuff' and leave the dregs to the 'natives', just like many other of the caribbean islands...
I've thought the same thing for years
12-21-2014, 10:53 AM
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My brother just got back from his Cuban vacation and they hired a car/driver to show them the sights in old Havana. The car was a 55 Pontiac 4dr, powered by......get this.....a Perkins diesel out of a boat! He said it was pretty gutless but ran good all day.
12-21-2014, 11:04 AM
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12-21-2014, 08:41 PM
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Burning Brakes
12-22-2014, 05:23 AM
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Burning Brakes
12-22-2014, 07:15 AM
#35
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From old cars to political rants. This is not good.
12-22-2014, 08:27 PM
#36
Burning Brakes
They kind of go together when you talk about Cuba. However, the vast majority of the late 50s cars there are now just so bastardized and so many components have been cannibalized from other machines (not even other cars!) that they just serve as working monuments to the ingenuity of those folks. It makes for nice fodder, though.
My point is that it will not be a classic car boon and it serves no one, especially those in Cuba, to normalize relations with a communist country. Hell, BHO just smacked Venezuela with trade sanctions and they are merely a socialist state, not a communist one (the next step). WTF?
My point is that it will not be a classic car boon and it serves no one, especially those in Cuba, to normalize relations with a communist country. Hell, BHO just smacked Venezuela with trade sanctions and they are merely a socialist state, not a communist one (the next step). WTF?
12-23-2014, 12:11 AM
#38
Team Owner
Other than landing there! then following the playbook, which is
Find the line of old Taxi's-- jump in and ride to the cargo plane, pay the fare, negotiate your deal buying yourself a classic taxi, and load it up, then repeat!
You could look at it from a different angle, restrictions lifted and they start buying 2015 Corvettes! Then we have another CRISIS, we embargo them etc.. and 40-60 years from now, our children return and pick up 2015 Taxi cab Corvettes!
You could look at it from a different angle, restrictions lifted and they start buying 2015 Corvettes! Then we have another CRISIS, we embargo them etc.. and 40-60 years from now, our children return and pick up 2015 Taxi cab Corvettes!
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12-23-2014, 12:18 AM
#39
Drifting
Yall guys are nuts. I can just imagine all the "all original numbers matching" barn finds that are going to start surfacing. Heck I betcha someone will even find a stash of BB Corvettes..
12-23-2014, 12:31 AM
#40
Team Owner
I also have this vision
About a barn find Lada with the full Baldwin Motion line of parts installed!