A 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air (L) used as a taxi is parked next to other vintage cars near Havana's train station. In Communist Cuba, more than 60,000 American cars made in the 1940s and 1950s are still in full use. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union plunged Cuba into a deep economic crisis in 1991, the old American cars have been pressed into service as jitney cabs to fill the void left by a deficient public transport system.