Hemmings Daily: Preserved 1956 Plymouth Belvedere wins Cuba's first modern concours

If it takes a good amount of pluck and perseverance to keep old cars on the road in Cuba using parts adapted from trucks, tractors, and automobiles alike, then to maintain a decades-old car there in near-original condition it must require heaps of resourcefulness, something that the judges of Cuba's first Autos Clasicos concours recognized when they awarded their Grand Prize to Ramon Ventura and his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere. While the two-tone four-door Belvedere might not warrant a second look at an American car [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Tuesday, January 15, 2019 [Preserved 1956 Plymouth Belvedere wins Cuba's first modern concours]( [Preserved 1956 Plymouth Belvedere wins Cuba's first modern concours]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - If it takes a good amount of pluck and perseverance to keep old cars on the road in Cuba using parts adapted from trucks, tractors, and automobiles alike, then to maintain a decades-old car there in near-original condition it must require heaps of resourcefulness, something that the judges of Cuba's first Autos Clasicos concours recognized when they awarded their Grand Prize to Ramon Ventura and his 1956 Plymouth Belvedere. While the two-tone four-door Belvedere might not warrant a second look at an American car ... 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