The amazing hidden car culture of Communist Cuba
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Bill Warner is the Founder and Chairman of The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance Foundation but he is also a world renowned automotive journalist and photographer. He co-wrote a book about Cuba's Car Culture. This is the story of his research. Learn more about the Bill & the Concours at ameliaconcours....
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#Cuba #CarCulture #Travel
It's not car culture it's called survival.
Fast & Furious got some parts of it right!
What a high profile guy to have on VinWiki!
Right? Founder of amelia island concourse ... I loved how he just casually slid that a governor or congressman casually helped him out.. Lol he forsure runs in some better circles then I do.
@@Brock_Corb he was born into it just because he had a co gressoerson help him casually doe snot mean he's better than you
@@lurk7967 🤦🏾♂️🤡you're dumb
@@lurk7967 Found the communist
Brock Corb wow
If I stumbled upon a 300SL like that I would lose my mind!
only in a us-sanctioned country. cuba is the only example for that right now.
i would have been attempting to buy it haha
That's what I was thinking. That 300SL would turn into a Gem if any of us got a hold of it.
The Cuba 300 SL is well known since decades. Thousands of offers. Not sold.
lamberko how much were they offering do you know?
Last time I was this early, Top Gear was the best version of Top Gear we had. Now we have Car Trek!
I go to Cuba a couple of weeks every year. If you know the right people, relationships forged over time, there are a number of absolute original 50s cars kicking around. Hard to find, but they exist. I went over a 57 Ford Sunliner a few years ago in Havana near Revolution Square. I could find nothing about it that wasn't original Ford. Incredible restoration.
Very, very rare. My dad got talking to a Cuban guy on Facebook who has a bone stock '55 Crown Victoria, even has the 292 Y-block in it still. He gets a lot of parts from Canada and Australia.
Finally some VinWiki instead of hear more corona news everywhere thank you guys for the videos we need a distraction from all the bad that's happening!!
clos2221 agreed. Thank good for VINWiki and their new show, Car trek
Pie yield _ indeed matter fact I just got done watching their first video really good !!
Yeah this cleans up the mind, at least for the day.
Pie yield _
Anything with Tavarish in it I can’t watch.
As Canadian we go to Cuba often. Around Varadero we see new Chev and Dodge trucks, Audi, VW, and Mercedes. Majority are 50s car and most appear to have been sitting in the ocean for 50 years. Very nice people.
Bill Warner is a great addition to the VINwiki channel with his knack for detail and storytelling. He's "been there, done that".
"The people are very resourceful and have nothing."
Coming to a country near you.
Uhhh. Not quite.
If the swamp donkeys ever get their way.
You're not wrong
Lol
Only if the"Trickle Down Economics" Communist's have their way.
Back in 2006 or so I spent 10 days in Havana doing some training at their vaccine plant. Every day they drove us from the hotel in Miramar to the plant out in the middle of the sugar plantations in a late-90s Chrysler Grand Voyager (3rd gen I think). The coolest thing was every lunch they drove us to their hospitality building, which must have been an early-20th century plantation owner's house, in a variety of 1970s and 1980s US or Canadian school buses. Lots of little Fiat/Polski 126s there as well - on one trip into the plant one got stuck in a pothole a couple of cars ahead of us, so a couple of guys waiting on the side of the road just ran over and lifted it out. Just about everything there has a diesel engine - at rush hour the stench of low-quality diesel fumes was pretty overpowering.
That 300SL coupe has now been resorted.
or restored . . .
once i ran over a donkey *vin wiki music plays*
shrek plot twist It was a person
I went to Havana in June 2017. I saw that Bonneville convertible in person. It has an inline 5 engine today. Quite creative engineering to keep those cars running.
Who else is here after watching Car Trek?
Most watched Car Trek from hearing it here
Mason Goff nope
LoL
Yea no
Yea nah
Cuba has heart and spirit like no other. I wouldn’t say that they have nothing because they’re poor. They don’t have access because they’ve been denied access.
Still a cool video.
Wow i been fan of the channel for quite some time and i never thought of hear about a car story from my country!!! Good job guys!!
adrian ruiz same
I want to have a beer with this man
a Coors beer? 8:54
Edit : added timestamp
Since 2013 I've been wanting a classic from Cuba most of those cars they're driving you cant even find a frame anymore
the part about Russian tractor motors reminds me of the beginning of Fast 8 where Vin Diesel mentions that the car he's looking at has a Boat Motor in it lol
This was a really cool episode! Really insightful and entertaining!
I remember when Dominic Toretto drove a flaming 1930's pickup truck in reverse to win "The Cuban Mile".
True story... Good Times... Family.
“The newest American car we saw down there was a ‘61 Pontiac”
*literally a 2010s ranger behind it*
That is not a Ford, it is a Asian built SUV. Do your research before trolling.
@@OIcu-go2tk Is it one of those Chinese knock offs?
he was referring to back when he went there
@@freshtree I made this comment when I was 15 you can’t blame me for being a little stupid LMAO
jerry seinfeld called these classics, to which bill burr said that theyve been driviing those cars for fifty years theyre not classics theyre probably sick of them.
This guy is my favorite interviewee period. Has the best stories
Those "polski" cars he refers to means literally polish. Polski fiat to be exact.
There's literally a ford behind 1960's pontiac, you know the newest american car you saw in cuba.
this guy is a beast. Respect
6:30 That Chrysler once belonged to Ernest Hemingway. I read an article about it's restoration.
last time I was this early an entire city wasn't destroyed by 2 giant balls
My great grandma hid a plymouth super bird for decades
I think ChrisFix should make a debut on the channel.
Our sister island is a hidden gem for classic cars!
I like how he talks about “If your in a Communist country then everybody’s watching you”. Dude, ever heard of the Patriot Act? Our shit government does the same thing
Here its our devices doing the spying, and also selling ads from the data they gather from us.
Louis Subearth devices made and tended by humans
I know a lot about the hidden gem cars in Cuba
So what?
lamberko there extremely beautiful cars some beyond repair I’m Cuban myself and occasionally go hunting for cars like these for fun
I’m the son of Cuban exiles and I travel to the island quite often as I love the culture and the people , in if there is something I learned is that the wealth is still there it’s just hidden now , people that you think don’t have it , have it
Cars and women in Cuba are certainly something you'll never forget 👍
Wow, that's quite the guest you got Ed, I'm sure he has a few interesting stories in him. #VinWiki #EdBolian
I'm not sad to hear how these rare classics get modified with the "wrong" motor or parts or sit in a state of decay because it's history and that's important.
The ones that live on tho are gorgeous 😍
Ahh! The Parque Centrale Hotel in Havana! Great place, great service, great ice cream too!!
This made me think of Fate of the Furious
Great episode Ed!
As a cuban I go to cuba to visit family often. There’s actually pretty new cars that you can rent when you arrive to the airport. My dad went this past summer and he rented a 2017 Mercedes GLC. There are new cars but gas is scarce so if you see a newer car it’s rented by someone who is a tourist.
I loved that show Cuban chrome. Hope someone does something like that down there. Crazy how they kept these cars going with any part they could find or make.
Great speaker, Great story VINwiki. Thank you.
That was different, I like it!
Last time I was this early, Rabbit was still married!
My favourite story from Vinwiki
I guess I’m just a kid cause some of the 50-60s car that were shown I automatically attached eyes to the windshield and imagine em like the Disney car movie.
Just got back from Cuba was my 17th time love the people and the car culture
I stayed in Cuba for some months... lived in San Jose, about 30min or so from Havana.. I went to Havana frequently. Immediately you get to Cuba, its like you are in the 70's .... it's all old school.
GAZ Chaikas are still some of the coolest cars on earth.
Remember Ed, there was no flood in Santa Monica last April.
Ooops wrong video
I love his narration & casualness
Here after watching car trek.
I could listened to that for hours.
In Havana there is a really good car museum with a lot of vintage cars including Rolls Royces
I imagine that the 300sl talked about is the same one that classic and sports car wrote an article about it being restored
3:15 GAZ 14 'Chaika', V8. Very cool.
6:05 Polski Fiat 126p Rear wheel drive, rear engine, 2 cylinders, 700cc if yer lucky lol
as a canadian going to cuba is easy and canadians love it there cuba has an amazing charm about it. Americans need to calm down about cuba they are no threat to you they may still be a communist country but americans up until recently have gotten along fine with china. Cubans are great people
What a cool guy! I'd love to be in his close-knit car entourage.
That red at 1:01
Gotta watch Cuban Chrome on motortrend. Absolutely amazing show
I was studying Cuba in politics before the Corona virus shut my school down, this is really interesting to hear about.
nice one about communism and capitalism : getting tips makes the difference
"three quarter sized Obama"
I saw a 57 Ford with a Yugo engine in Havana.
In Cuba, neighbors snitching on each other are called"Commies". In America, we call them"Karen's"!
I would love to listen to him tell story’s
Fascinating story!
The 300 SL was restored by an Italian entrepreneur
We really need to get back to Cuba. So stupid to hold a grudge all this time
Yeah, Cuba no longer represents a threat to the US, so I guess the embargo lift is long overdue and let them open up to the world in full force. Maybe that way we can ship them the parts to restore those classics and they can teach us how to be as resourceful as they are.
Louis Subearth their economy would explode thanks to our want for classic cars. Win win for all
@@joesshows6793 their economy can't go any lower. If anything, the embargo will have them on par with the Dominican Republic in terms of economic development.
Aww I thought he would show the xray of the España Suiza
buddy said the newest car they saw was a 1961 .. LOL @ 5:22 there is a ford ranger
I was hearing that 50s cars are more expensive in Cuba than American because they're a huge investment because you can use them for a living.
Vinwiki needs Tom Cotter stories
5:21, he says the newest American car out there was the 61 pink Pontiac. But there's a 2005-ish Ford Ranger behind it, and it doesn't look like the Mazda based model at the time (they had shorter grilles and headlights. Maybe it came after he last saw the Pontiac?
I could be wrong here but its very possible that it didn't get there from the USDM.. The ranger was sold in other countries I believe
@@boxedfender4810 it could be either US or Canadian spec, but a lot of US cars end up in the Middle East, and it's very possible that the importer that brings cars to Cuba has access to those Middle Eastern auction blocks, as well as auctions in Mexico and other nearby countries where US cars may end up in.
I’m no fan of communism, but a lot of what you’re describing is the result of totalitarianism and dictatorship. No government or society is purely any one thing, just as the US is far from purely capitalist. Just an overly simplistic analysis of the politics underlying your experience down there, interesting though it surely was.
Great memory and storyteller
There's supposed to be a DB5 in Cuba with a Lada engine and interior
Their is
Ver y well Done Eddie 👍🤓🇺🇸
YOU GET THE GREATEST STORIES ...
Awesome story.
Meyer Lansky that’s me!
I went to Cuba in 2015, believe it or not, theres a Porsche 356 knocking around that someone drives daily. Saw it a few times. It's pretty rough though 😥
These classic cars are mostly Mercedes diesel powered nowadays. I think they're getting new Chinese manufactured vehicles there too.
Daddy saw one of the t.v. series about cars in Cuba and said he felt sorry for all those have to live under such oppression. Of course he’s a tad biased because his U.S.A.F. Reserve Unit went on alert during the Cuba Missile Crisis. He was an armorer/J-57 engine mechanic assistant on the F-100’s.
Why is there a neon sign of the Lacoste company. They make clothes...
I dont understand, Bernie says it is a paradise and they have a literacy program.
When the heck did he say that?
If Cuba allowed Facebook, all the cars from FB Marketplace would be gone (and on the way to Cuba). As resourceful as Cubans have become, if all of them created "how to" YT channels, the citizens could get rid of the communist leaches
A whole lotta Ladas!
2:45 what is that car? It’s not a Gaz Chaika
i heard about the hispano suiza story but can't remember the source.
Every rusted out hulk i've seen in Cuba had some dude wanting $50,000 for it because 'It was one of Castro's cars'.
It’s so cool history
Very sad and a little inspiring! I refuse to go for a visit till those people are free.........but will we be "free" by then.......
The 300 sl
Meanwhile, we're being constantly spied upon in the land of the free...
I thought this was Ed McMahon for a second.
So there is a chance for me to import a lada
very cool story