According to "Yank Tanks," filmmaker David Schendel's entertaining and equally enlightening documentary, at the time Fidel Castro seized power of Cuba in 1959, there were almost 150,000 American cars cruising the streets of Havana and environs. Adapting to the realities of a 4-decade-old U.S. trade embargo, these men have learned to do some amazing things with chain-link fences, retrofitted chain-saw engines and homemade kilns. In addition to those fascinating interview subjects, vivid digital filmmaking and the likes of Chucho Valdes and Cachao on the pulsating soundtrack, there's even more under the picture's shimmering hood.

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