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This Is Guantanamo Bay's $400,000 Go-Kart Track
Congress loves to spend taxpayer dollars. That's part of the reason why the federal debt is nearly $16 trillion. Since 2001, more than two billion of those dollars have gone into renovations to the controversial Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba.
50 Years Ago We All Almost Died: The Images That Define The Cuban…
Half a century ago, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev and U.S. President John F. Kennedy squared off in a battle over the balance of world power that came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. How close did we all come to dying?
In Communist Cuba, Car Love Runs Deep out of Necessity
Cuba is about more than just old cars, but the island nation's adversarial history makes car ownership unique from almost any other place in the world. If you have a car in Cuba, you probably have an old car.
Days may be numbered for old American cars in Cuba
Authorities in Cuba have proposed laws that could mean an end for many of the classic American cars that are still in use in the country. Under current Cuban law, cars registered after the 1959 revolution cannot be bought or sold. As a result Cubans have used a mixture of ingenuity and backyard engineering to keep the…
Desoto in Havana
One of the estimated 60,000 old American cars or "Yank Tanks" still on the road in Cuba, this 1955 Desoto appears to have weathered years of regular use fairly well. The trade embargo that limited new American cars being brought to Cuba makes it nearly impossible to get parts for old ones. Often soviet parts are fit to…
How Fidel Castro kidnapped the world's greatest racer
Fifty-three years ago this week, Cuban rebels led by Fidel Castro pulled one of the great political stunts of the modern era — kidnapping Juan Manuel Fangio. Joe Saward tells how it happened on his Grand Prix Blog. — Ed.
24 Hours Of LeMons "Compromises" On Cuban-Themed Race
The LeMons race that threw a few rods
24 Hours of LeMons Generates Actual Controversy
The 24 Hours of LeMons, Jalopnik's favorite weekend racing series of vehicles ostensibly assembled for $500, has drawn protests from Miami-area Cubans over using pictures of Che Guevara in an offhand fashion. ¡VENCEREMOS! UPDATE: Che may have been banished.
