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Normally, I just post stories directly related to Cuba. In this case, I made an exception — as cars from what many would call Detroit's "golden age" are as much icons in Cuba as they are in the U.S.

Anything to make a Cuba connection!

From the Los Angeles Times:

When cars were America's idols

By Dan Neil

If you were to walk up to a typical New York executive in the 1960s -- think Don Draper in AMC's "Mad Men" -- and tell him that General Motors Corp. would be in bankruptcy by 2009, he would have thought you were delusional, or perhaps a Communist.

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