Classic American cars from the 1950s are a common sight in Cuba, where sales of newer vehicles from the U.S. have been blocked by an embargo for decades.

If you have read anything about Cuba, you likely learned that old, American cars are plentiful in the capital city of Havana ...

The cars predate communist Cuba's 1959 revolution, having rolled off the assembly line decades before the U.S. auto industry's current crisis of steep losses in reputation and market share.