[Healeys] Cuban Chrome

[Simon Lachlan]

Hi, I’ve been to Cuba three times. Those old cars are great. They don’t all however stand a very close inspection. Seems like the owners usually (have to) take more pride in their cars’ longevity than its appearance. Originality is out of the question by and large. Yes, they can do amazing things on a shoestring but the humidity is a killer. I doubt if those so-called “Yank tanks” were designed to see out Batista let alone Che and the Castro brothers!! You see a lot of bodywork patched up with God knows what and then brush painted. I’ve hired a couple of them. You normally hire driver and car by the day……the one I liked most looked pretty good but the driver told me that it had the engine from a Chinese fishing boat! It was hugely underpowered but, what the hell, we had a good day out.

Simon

 

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of HealeyRick
Sent: 14 January 2025 13:58
To: i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com>
Cc: Healeys at Autox <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Cuban Chrome

 

You can see a Cuban bugeye in the film. Juan de los Muertos  https://studio.youtube.com/video/79K1j_a3ufg/edit. IIRC, it has a Lada motor.

 

Rick Neville aka "HealeyRick"

 

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM i erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com <mailto:eyera3000 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Repeat of show. The Healey is a six cyl with a Chevy straight sox in it. I watched three episodes last night 

 

Ira Erbs
Milwaukie, OR
1959 Austin Healey 100-6
    

 

On Sun, Jan 12, 2025, 4:55 PM Leonard Hartnett <thehartnetts at earthlink.net <mailto:thehartnetts at earthlink.net> > wrote:

I was channel surfing this morning and came to Motor Trend channel.  There is a program called Cuban Chrome.  I happened to come across Season 1, Episode 4 and saw the back quarter of an Austin-Healey.  It was a 1959 100.    The program follows Cubans that are restoring or repairing mostly American cars so they can join the local car club and they can make money using the cars to transport tourists around.  I came back to it on episode 7 and they spent time with the AH doing body work. The owner has a friend who lives in the US and brought him some parts including a “3000” trunk flash.  For the 100?  It will be interesting to see how this project turns out.  For more info, if interested, go to Discovery.com/cubanchrome.

              The Other Len
1967 Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII BJ8
                HBJ8L39031

             225,646  miles

 

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