Chariots of Chrome
George Fischer and Simon Bell
Boston Mills Press
Hardback · 144 pages
10.75 x 8.75 inches
Language: English
Released: September 2004
ISBN: 1550463942
Cuba is a vintage car lover’s paradise. Until the 1960s Cuba was the world’s leading importer of American automobiles. While most North Americans, in their continuing quest for the new, gladly relegated their aged autos to the scrap pile, similar cars were lovingly maintained by generations of inventive Cuban mechanics. Come cars have been restored to their former glory, others have been elaborately improvised into working condition from Soviet truck engines and hand-forged parts. This book is a tribute to those generously proportioned American automobiles that we loved and lost, but which enjoy a vibrant old age in Cuba.