On a suggestion from one of our readers, I picked up Richard Schweid's 2004 book on 1950s cars in Cuba, Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile: On the Road in Cuba. While I didn't find exactly what I was looking for in the book, I did come across a couple other tidbits worth mentioning.
One of the star attractions of the show was a car that converted to an
airplane, built by a Massachusetts company. It was driven from New
England down to Key West, Florida, from whence it flew to Havana for
the auto show. It covered the ninety miles in eighty minutes, which
included "several" minutes circling low over Havana before landing,
during which "thousands of persons could not believe their eyes,"
according to the Diario de la Marina.
So which flying car was it that made it to the Havana auto show?
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