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Unusual news from Liberty Island is able to inspire sadness in the hearts of fans oltaymerov. Unique auto-social experiment ended.

Cuban authorities have removed more than a half-century ban on the import and retail sale of new vehicles, in force since 1959.

In the press service of the Cuban leader Raul Castro said that the decision was another step on the path to economic liberalization. A couple of years the Cubans could buy and sell used cars privately. Now all restrictions on trade in cars lifted and every Cuban is free to buy a new car.

After the Cuban Revolution was a trade in cars is prohibited. It was impossible to sell even bought the car until 1959, so the old cars handed down as a family heirloom. To be used as official vehicles purchased tiny batch of cars from the Soviet Union or of the countries of the socialist bloc. However, doctors and other professionals working abroad to buy a car in the former socialist bloc, but were not able to sell them later.

This led to the fact that Cuba has become quite a unique place - a real museum of antique cars, which gave the country the inexpressible charm. As she traveled the streets freely cars that left the assembly line more than half a century ago!

Artificial restriction creates a unique place in the world where the majority of private car owners moved on most of these Oldtimer produced before the ban in 1959.

It is a pity that such an unusual "Reserve oldtimer" forever receding into the past ...