Envoys’ Daimler Gets Slot Beside Che’s Buick
From Reuters
HAVANA —
A hand-crafted, custom-made Daimler, the only limousine of its kind in Cuba, was handed over Thursday to Mayor Fernandez Mell of Havana by British Ambassador Andrew Palmer as a “gesture of good will” at a ceremony in Havana’s auto museum.
The last three British ambassadors in Havana have used the 1980 white Daimler, which was replaced last year by a Jaguar. The museum put the Daimler on show alongside a 1958 U.S.-made Buick once used by the late Marxist ideologue and guerrilla fighter, Ernesto (Che) Guevara.
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