HAVANA — Until a few weeks ago, Erik González's decrepit car did little more than devour his tiny income.
Siberian Aluminium, for example, has bought a decrepit car company, GAZ, and this week announced plans for a new engine plant.
They have, he claims, passed him over for raises and assigned him a decrepit car with more than a hundred and fifty thousand miles on it.
Occasionally a packed, decrepit trolley car rumbled by the park, but for the most part people walked -- and some lucky ones cycled.
On this particular day, Felix wakes in his girlfriend's bed, visits his father in Caldwell, talks to a decent, left-wing neighbor and travels into central London to look at a decrepit vintage car he might refurbish.
After three days of pedaling around Havana -- gawking at decrepit classic cars and decrepit colonial buildings -- and 12 hours on a chartered air-conditioned bus, we began our two-week cycling adventure in Bayamo, the capital of Granma Province, where the country's largest mountain range, the Sierra Maestra, dips into the Caribbean.
LARS QUALBEN The Giving Trees The abandoned lots were originally strewn with rusty cars, decrepit refrigerators and rubble.
What the rickety boats represented on Lampedusa, so the decrepit, often rusty cars used by the smugglers do on Europe's roads.
Bed and TV share room space with decrepit tumble dryers, clapped-out car and, inevitably, the kitchen sink.
The car is so decrepit that Mr Premji has had to seek assurances from Ford that the company will continue to service it.Mr Premji's old banger says much about the man who has helped Wipro fight its way to the front of India's IT-export boom.
There is a decrepit general store and a car wash, which at least seems like a reasonable business proposition given the amount of dust whipped up by the gravel roads that provide access to the place, far from major highways and hidden amid farmland, where the Cash family picked cotton.
