CARISTAS

[...] is eye-pleasing but not particularly valuable. 3. Classic, but not so collectible Most of Cuba's old cars are low-to-mid-range four-door sedans; nice to look at, but hardly must-haves for collectors. [...]

[...] Brenda Priddy will serve as host of the group. Priddy is personable and travel-savvy, she loves old cars, and you need only look at her work in the pages of the world's top auto publications to know [...]

[...] cars of Cuba. CARISTAS is a blog about the vintage cars of Cuba. CARISTAS is a blog about the old cars of Cuba. CARISTAS is also a blog about driving in Cuba, and car owners in Cuba, and the [...]

[...] think of first when the topic of the Caribbean island nation arises. What will happen to the old cars? It's far too early to say. But to answer CNN's question ... a whole lot longer, if necessary. [...]

[...] cruiser has lost a few grille teeth and some side chrome, but still looks smart. For 1953, the Bel Air was Chevrolet's new top-of-the-line model. Chevy built 24,000 Bel Air convertibles that year, [...]

[...] resprayed red-and-white dashboard, the green enamel inside the roof that perhaps was once this Bel Air's outward hue. And you understand now that the Cuban car does not in fact live forever but dies [...]

[...] ;  I was brought to this place by a man we'll call Alonso, owner of a black-over-white 1956 Bel Air sedan that was purchased new by his grandfather, a farmer near, yes, Matanzas.     [...]

[...] attests.    This fellow, Alonso tells me, is a student of the man restoring his `56 Bel Air. From the high-quality work we see on the Peugeot, it`s clear that the master`s magic is brushing [...]

[...] ? A: My first surprise when I arrived at the airport at night was seeing the large number of classic cars on the road. I really didn't expect to still see so many of them. I felt like a little boy on [...]

[...] Amidst much breathless speculation about the impact of the new détente on Cuba's classic cars, Time reporter Jacob Davidson offers this cogent, well-researched assessment of their [...]

[...] of the rusted-beyond-repair Gullwing before setting out to capture images of the island's classic cars for the 2015 edition of his art calendar. "After weeks of unsuccessful searching," [...]

[...] are hit over their tiny robotic heads. So, spiders, know this: CARISTAS is a blog about the classic cars of Cuba. CARISTAS is a blog about the vintage cars of Cuba. CARISTAS is a blog about the old [...]

[...] BMW Isetta is the subject for May in the 2015 Degler Calendar. You might not get to Cuba as often as you wish. Perhaps you don't get there at all. But with [...]

[...] world's only known derelict Mercedes Gullwing The Gullwing resurfaces, this time in the 2015 Degler Calendar by Piotr Degler Jablonski. In an interview, the young photographer describes his month-long [...]

[...] Degler Jablonski with the 2014 calendar. Piotr Degler Jablonski is the creator of the Degler Calendar, an automotive-themed calendar that for 2015 presents a series of glorious images from [...]

[...] Update: The Canadian government and the Cuban embassy in Ottawa announced Thursday that Justine Davis will be allowed to leave Cuba and is expected to arrive in Canada on Friday. Justine Davis. [...]

[...] leg. He finally arrived back in Canada last Sunday. Barnett's enforced stay matched that of Justine Davis, but was well short of the months-long detainments of Cody Lecompte and Damian Buksa. Other [...]

[...] Piotr Degler Jablonski with the 2014 calendar. Piotr Degler Jablonski is the creator of the Degler Calendar, an automotive-themed calendar that for 2015 [...]

[...] of shots, Jablonski chose 12 for the second edition of the Degler Calendar. Photos ©Piotr Degler Jablonski. Used by permission. [...]

[...] Mercedes Gullwing The Gullwing resurfaces, this time in the 2015 Degler Calendar by Piotr Degler Jablonski. In an interview, the young photographer describes his month-long mission to find the car. [...]

[...] reasons, Chevy Vega. The Monza 2+2 hatchback was actually quite sporty looking, but the Cuban car is the second Monza body variant, the notchback Towne Coupe introduced to compete with, [...]

[...] Chevrolet has been patched and primed.    There is no mystery to the longevity of the Cuban car.    Not when Alonso's 1956 Chevrolet is laid bare for you to witness the toll of [...]

[...] that followed Castro's takeover. He travelled to Cuba at least twice more, dining with Fidel Castro at the Palace of the Revolution in 2002, where he might have discussed with the Cuban leader [...]

[...] tractors, its municipal buses, even its power stations. Cubans adapted. In the grim years that Fidel Castro would call a "Special Period in Time of Peace," they structured their lives around [...]

[...] to abandon a law that requires wholesale reform in Cuba, starting with the ouster of Raúl and Fidel Castro, before the embargo can be lifted. That may be change, eventually, as the influence in the [...]

[...] , Chevrolet Corvair would have been among the last direct U.S. exports.    By the time Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed came out in 1965, the suspension of the Chevrolet Corvair had been [...]

[...] Nader/ U.S. Library of Congress Ralph Nader had already made auto safety his cause in 1959, but his visit to Cuba in April that year was [...]

[...] . Taillights look German – but as in Volkswagen German, not Mercedes-Benz. See also: The Cuba Gullwing Chronology [...]

How the 300SL would have looked new. Wikipedia photo. In six years, no topic here has drawn more attention than the story of Cubas's rotting Mercedes [...]