I find the talk about buying up Cuba's cars like a flock of vultures

[MADem]

3. If they can sell an old car for a new car and a new house, well, they should go for it.

If they want to, that is...and if they're allowed to sell. There are restrictions on who can sell what to whom. It's not a free market economy.

A lot of those cars are no longer original, not even close--they've been modified six ways to Sunday, out of necessity. They are beautiful, though--colorful, modified works of art. A testimony to the ingenuity of the people of the island.

If they are allowed to sell, though, that's up to them. If you've been living at the end of a hallway in a "home" that used to be the landing of an apartment building in the bad old days, and you can gather enough money to buy a house with your own bathroom, you might not be so worried about the cultural heritage of your ride, if you're given enough money to buy a house and a new or newer car.