Jerry Brito

Sailing to the U.S. on a Chevy. Twice.

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Car and Driver has a great feature on Luis Grass the ‘camionauta’ who twice turned 50’s-era Chevy trucks into seaworthy vessels in order to escape Cuba.

Grass had more than just intuition to apply when modifying his truck. He had trained as a naval engineer in Cuba but dropped out of the program during the fourth of his six years of study when, he says, the military commitment and the Communist Party membership that go with such training kicked in. So, on an island nation where private ownership of boats is illegal, he was one of the few people who knew how to build them.”