Cuba Cars: 1957 DeSoto, 1950 Chevrolet, etc

Thanks to Tim Pearson for these notes, and Seth Pearson for photos, from Cuba:

"As you can see most of the rolling stock is either pre-1960 American or pre-1991 Lada. Most of the vintage American cars lost their engines years ago. Many have Asian or European diesels under the hood. The 50 Chevy we are examining had a Volga four cylinder as its power source (an optimistic pairing given the weight of the Chevy and the lack of power delivered by the Russian four). My neck hurt the first couple of days from twisting my head to see all of the remarkable old cars. Cuba = Good cars, music, food, and plenty of decaying infrastructure."--Tim Pearson