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aeronca65t

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We spent 5 days in Antigua with 25 family and friends for a family event.

Antigua is an old Brit colony that got independence in '81 and combined with neighboring Barbuda to form a small island country in the West Indies.
It's near Montserrat and St. Martens

Not exactly a ton of neat cars in Antigua, but some worth noting.

We saw an old Bedford dump truck that looked a lot like a 50s Dodge but with rhd. It was moving, but in a dreadful state.
Also a modern "Leyland" truck.
There seems to be no road inspection in Antigua. Road signs say "20" or "40" but the Hertz rental car folks didn't know if it was in MPH or KPH. No one seems to pay much attention to speeds or normal passing rules.
There are no shoulders on the roads and people just stop and park in the middle of a road if they are visiting someone.

I saw a Honda S2000 (lhd) and a Pontiac Trans-Am FIrebird. A fair amount of "ricers" like Mitsu EVOs and Subie WRXs.

Almost all big trucks (tractor trailers and larger dump trucks) are US imports and have the steering on the "wrong" side. This makes it real tough for truck drivers on the narrow roads.....I gave them a lot of space.

~Our Driving Video~


The guy next to me (below) pulled up drinking beer. You can see the Heiny he left on the console
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This cow (below) wandered across the street in front of us. People hit cows all the time (according to the local paper). They were all over the place. Some were tethered with chains but this one broke free (like many of them). There were hundered of random, unsupervised goats wandering free too. Plus chickens and a few donkeys. Some people rode the donkeys.

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A Chevy Spark
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Popular type of Hyundai
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Common Kia truck
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Typical,crowed street in St. John's
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Our car and a smaller rental one
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RHD Jeep CJ
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Kia
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Suzuki dealer
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Toyota dealer
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more.....

Just for fun--this was the shipwright's buiding in English Harbour. It's made from solid teak.
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Our rhd Nissan Tiida ("Sentra" in US).
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The Toyota HiAce van we hired one day.
2.7 liter twin cam with five speed manual shift (stick coming out of the dash board by the way, so they could have a center front seat).
14 seats in all! I'd love one of these.
They also come with 3.0 turbo diesel.
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Very common Delta mini-dump truck. Locals ride in the back of them all over the place.
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An old steam engine...there were several more nearby for the old sugar planation. Also, lots of windmills.
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An Avanti motorcycle (Chinese-built)
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A Landy used for tourist tours
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Bigger HiAce van with 3.0 turbo diesel
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This is the Stanford Cricket Park. The Stanford Bank is nearby. Google "Sir Allen Stanford" for an interesting story.

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It would seem the island will soon have an influx of FBI/SEC type tourists.

"The break could signify that prosecutors are closing in on the group's chairman, Sir Allen Stanford, a Texas billionaire with dual US and Antigua Barbuda citizenship who has been a prominent sponsor of cricket, golf, tennis and polo events.

Stanford is already facing civil charges accusing him of orchestrating a "massive" fraud in the sales of $8 billion in high-interest certificates of deposit issued by the Antigua-based Stanford International Bank."

jeeze, a guy can't even run a little Ponzi scheme anymore.
 
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