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Classic U.S. cars from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s still travel the streets of Havana, four decades after the U.S. stopped trading with the nation that had seen Fidel Castro come to power and embrace the Communist Party. The trade ban keeps Detroit’s new models from going to Cuba and makes it hard for Cubans to get parts for their old American cars. Mechanics improvise tools and parts to keep the cars running, preserving automobiles that John Kennedy would recognize.