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2004-02-04 Caribbean

Cubans try âdrivingâ â59 Buick to Florida

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Posted by Dar 2004-02-04 1:58:00 PM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hopefully we'll allow them to stay this time. And have the sense to run them as a team in "Junkyard Wars."

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-2-4 2:16:05 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-2-4 2:16:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Why didn't he try to convert a Soviet or East-German car?

Posted by JFM 2004-2-4 2:41:44 PM|| 2004-2-4 2:41:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Arrival of the Fitest.

Have faith and don't panic when you see S. Beach.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-4 3:20:56 PM|| 2004-2-4 3:20:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 JFM... Could you see them trying to make the 90-mile crossing in a Trabant? I wouldn't try to cross a busy intersection in one! Besides, there are ten of them in the Buick. You couldn't tie that many people TO a Trabant!

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-4 3:22:04 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-4 3:22:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 there ar good and bad to this story. those cars are bad polluters and should be taken off the rode. but if it sinks some dolfins could be hurt as it goes to the bottom of the sea.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-2-4 4:20:32 PM|| 2004-2-4 4:20:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I understand they didn't make it. :(

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-4 5:45:03 PM|| 2004-2-4 5:45:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah well... there goes my inspiration for escaping from Naples with a 365 GTB 4A Daytona Ogolomato.

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-4 5:48:34 PM|| 2004-2-4 5:48:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 They should have trailed several extra pontoons full of fuel and tried for Mexico. Its a longer trip, but its the surest route into the US - as long as you forgo hitchhiking in the trailer of a large semi carrying 60 or so other undocumented soon to be amnestied Americans.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-2-4 8:08:49 PM|| 2004-2-4 8:08:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I read the Canadian Press report link off of yahoo.com. The Canadian Press decribes the attempt at freedon as a "stunt". How F'n typical.

Posted by Dan Canaveral 2004-2-4 9:23:38 PM|| 2004-2-4 9:23:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Nooo ... FOX5 (NYC area) just announced that they were picked up halfway across the ocean ...

Posted by Lu Baihu 2004-2-4 10:23:58 PM|| 2004-2-4 10:23:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Let 'em in. Make them the new hosts on Junkyard Wars, they earned it.

Posted by Nero 2004-2-4 10:51:51 PM|| 2004-2-4 10:51:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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