Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestWith one week to go, Demetrio gets his car painted, but a thunderstorm threatens to ruin the paint job. Ricardo fights with his painter over the car's new color, and Fernando's Bel-Air continues to stall. Will anyone make it to the club's ceremony?
After the 1959 Cuban Revolution and the subsequent United States embargo, it has been illegal to import American cars to the island nation - as a result, Cuba's vintage American vehicles are frozen in time, and each of these cars has a unique story to tell. For Cubans, these cars are not just a means of transportation, but a way of life. CUBAN CHROME will give viewers an intimate look into this rarely seen country as they meet the men who put everything on the line to keep these classic cars running. Through A Lo Cubano Car Club - a passionate group of car enthusiasts, restorers, mechanics and apprentices - the series explores the challenges and joys of life in Cuba, presenting an authentic look into their culture of passion, grit, determination and ingenuity.
Practical Effects
These mechanics literally invent parts that don't exist anymore.
Production
Stunning access to a Cuba most Americans have never seen.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
These 'yank tanks' symbolize pre-revolution Cuba; maintaining them is quietly political defiance wrapped in chrome.
Cuba has roughly 60,000 pre-1959 American cars still running — the world's largest living museum of Detroit iron, sustained by black market parts and pure obsession.
