Cuban Journey
    Havana to the Bay of Pigs
    Photography by Phil Cantor
    January 2000

   Cameras: Canon EOS A2, Yashica T4
    Lenses: 28-105mm, 200mm, 20mm
    Film: Fuji Sensia 400
   Copyright 2000 Phil Cantor

    What you notice first in Cuba are the cars. The old cars are American classics from the Thirties to the Fifties. After the US embargo, parts became impossible to get, so Cubans used Inventando or  ingenuity to keep their clunkers on the road. Often held together with wire and rivets, many of the cars have Russian engines, and transmissions taken from tractors. The streets are also filled with Russian Ladas, Polish Fiats, Hungarian buses, and other remnants from Soviet bloc automobile factories. Cars are always being repaired.