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In nearly every South American country you'll find a similar degree of makeshift to keep old imports running in spite of an absence of replacement parts. Even though most of the American landyachts from that period remaining in Brazil are usually kept in conditions closer to stock by collectors, and the similarity of their drivetrains with the locally-made truck ranges might have helped on that, it's not unusual to spot smaller European imports repowered with locally-made Volkswagen or Chevrolet drivetrains from their subcompact and compact ranges. In Uruguay, many were converted to Diesel usually with Peugeot or Isuzu engines. And there are also those motorcycle engine swaps into cars not just here in Brazil but also in Argentina and Paraguay. Anyway, now that new vehicle imports into Cuba are mostly Chinese, it does surprise me that they didn't start to put some random copy of the Honda CG 125 engine into those Lada sedans and Polish Fiat 126.
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