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Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:59 pm

Now Cuba is free to sale / buy a car..
A few years ago i was on Cuba and i remember i saw the bus ( before 55) but similar like a Colombian bus! Very destroy!
So it s to fare for french..
Somebody have hear something about this ?

Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:40 am

If what you're saying is that it is now legal for French citizens to purchase VW's in Cuba, that's news to me.

Be the first in to scope out the ancient Barndoors!

Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:10 pm

i'm pretty sure it's still illegal for us citzens to buy and export anything from cuba
unless you bring it into another country first then bring it here
but i still think that is somewhat illegal

Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:41 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/cuba-car-sales_n_985829.html

but that does not means that the cars can leave Cuba...

Claude

Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:39 pm

I think it will be quite some time before cars are let out of the country freely especially if they are destined to the US. I was just in Cuba this year and I saw very little in the way of early VW's. The earliest one I saw was a 66 Beetle, and very few buses. Not to say they aren't out there but I bet the pickings are slim especially for BD era stuff. Here's a taste of what can be expected there...

Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:37 am

Wow! a bay window Binz with optional sliding door, super rare :wink:
Colombia has nothing on Cuba.

Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:17 pm

I'm sure there are some down there. In the mid 90's my friend owned a VW parts shop in Miami. He had several customer who would buy split, oval and early bus parts to mail back to family in Cuba. Most should be early examples I would think.

Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:38 pm

When my brother went to Cuba, he found a messed up oval and a lowlight Ghia..
So there are some old VW's out there..

Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:54 am

I was also living in Pinar del rio in Cuba back in the 90's. Although the romance of finding the pre '59 hidden away like a time capsual in Cuba the reality is different. A car like a VW would be used.

If you want a Lada, there are plenty about. One of the only places (even Russia) that I have ever seen a Lada Limo

Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:54 am

The government has loosened regulations allowing Cubans to sell to one another. Before that some Cubans would inherit a broken down vehicle they couldn't afford to fix and couldn't sell. Even with the easing of restrictions, nothing can be exported from the country. Now that there are regular flights to Cuba, some old parts could possibly be sourced, but they'd have to fit in your luggage.

I think after legislating its VW taxi fleet off the road, Mexico City should have shipped them all to Cuba instead of crushing them by the thousands. Those cars would have survived another century.

Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:39 pm

how wasteful is that? ugly

Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:42 pm

Stupid but I bet the price of steel had something to with it.