Discover The Incredible Cars Of Cuba And The People Who Keep Them Running

Discover The Incredible Cars Of Cuba And The People Who Keep Them Running
Justin T. Westbrook

Recent political changes in Cuba, including expanded accessibility to
personal transportation and loosening restrictions of trade and tourism
with the U.S., have put a fresh light on the country's car scene.
Popular YouTube channel Mighty Car Mods just released a beautiful
documentary on the culture, the people and the cars of the communist state.

Cuba was cut off from the capitalist world when Fidel Castro took power
in 1959, leaving the country's roads as a snapshot of 1950's Americana
and forcing people to innovate and eventually mix with the utilitarian
boxes of the former Soviet Union. Cuba and its car culture now finds
itself front and center in the big Western blockbuster franchise that is
Fast & Furious.

I suspect that the eighth installment of the franchise, which includes
The Rock kicking a ice-skating torpedo into a truck at one point, isn't
going to do the people of Cuba justice, but here's a documentary that does.

Cuba is perhaps the one place in the world where automotive intelligence
hasn't faded—it's not allowed to. Instead it has flourished into a
beautiful quagmire of car parts and culture; a stream of a crazy
alternate reality just a few miles south of the rest of the world.

Check out the documentary from Mighty Car Mods below:
https://youtu.be/ZJPqe1baowA
The production quality is incredibly high compared to the YouTube I grew
up with, but Marty and Moog and their automotive misadventures have
always been maaaaad. This documentary takes it to a new level though,
and I'm excited to see the guys move into more amazing spotlights like this.

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