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Whoooaaa I thought VW Bugs could really float, but combine Cuban ingenuity and a 51 Chevy truck and that makes one hell of a boat.
Unfortunately they failed to make for freedom
Hope next time they succeed to escape from the Commies.
Freedom Bid in Floating '51 Chevy Truck
Thu Jul 24,12:07 PM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
MIAMI (Reuters) - The 12 Cubans who tried to sail a 1951 Chevy truck from the communist-ruled island to the United States got no marks from U.S. authorities for their creativity.
The would-be emigrants were sent back home.
Since Fidel Castro (news - web sites)'s 1959 revolution, Cubans have tried to leave the Caribbean island on rudimentary rafts, on giant truck inner tubes, in stolen boats and planes, even by windsurfer.
But no one remembers anyone attempting the 90-mile crossing of the Florida Straits in a floating flatbed truck with 55-gallon (250-litre) drums strapped to its sides, tires still in place, a propeller attached to its drive shaft and a driver behind the wheel.
"We've seen surfboards, pieces of Styrofoam, bathtubs, refrigerators. But never an automobile," Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Doss said on Thursday.
A U.S. government plane spotted the bright-green truck chugging through the water at 8 mph (13 kph) on July 16 about 40 miles south of Key West, just over halfway from Cuba to Florida. The Cubans had fashioned a makeshift, bright yellow shelter on the truck's bed.
"The truck's engine was actually running, propelling it through the water," Doss said.
The Coast Guard picked up the 12 Cubans from the vintage vehicle and took them back to the island on Sunday.
The truck was deemed a hazard to navigation and was sent to the bottom.
Under the U.S. immigration policy known as "wet foot, dry foot," Cubans who manage to set foot on U.S. soil are usually allowed to stay while those stopped at sea are routinely sent back to Cuba.
Those clever Cubans and their 51 Chevy boat
Unfortunately they failed to make for freedom
Hope next time they succeed to escape from the Commies. Freedom Bid in Floating '51 Chevy Truck
Thu Jul 24,12:07 PM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
MIAMI (Reuters) - The 12 Cubans who tried to sail a 1951 Chevy truck from the communist-ruled island to the United States got no marks from U.S. authorities for their creativity.
The would-be emigrants were sent back home.
Since Fidel Castro (news - web sites)'s 1959 revolution, Cubans have tried to leave the Caribbean island on rudimentary rafts, on giant truck inner tubes, in stolen boats and planes, even by windsurfer.
But no one remembers anyone attempting the 90-mile crossing of the Florida Straits in a floating flatbed truck with 55-gallon (250-litre) drums strapped to its sides, tires still in place, a propeller attached to its drive shaft and a driver behind the wheel.
"We've seen surfboards, pieces of Styrofoam, bathtubs, refrigerators. But never an automobile," Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Doss said on Thursday.
A U.S. government plane spotted the bright-green truck chugging through the water at 8 mph (13 kph) on July 16 about 40 miles south of Key West, just over halfway from Cuba to Florida. The Cubans had fashioned a makeshift, bright yellow shelter on the truck's bed.
"The truck's engine was actually running, propelling it through the water," Doss said.
The Coast Guard picked up the 12 Cubans from the vintage vehicle and took them back to the island on Sunday.
The truck was deemed a hazard to navigation and was sent to the bottom.
Under the U.S. immigration policy known as "wet foot, dry foot," Cubans who manage to set foot on U.S. soil are usually allowed to stay while those stopped at sea are routinely sent back to Cuba.
Those clever Cubans and their 51 Chevy boat
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damn that's amazing thing they can try to do even tho it is 
that anyone wants to get into USA and be a USA citizen :roll:
Yeah, I heard and saw that on the evening news the other day! I thought it was hilarious seeing that new method of trying to reach USA from Cuba via a car, heheheh.
