As we drive, dawn gradually breaks, revealing a dashboard cluttered with Christian iconography and two windscreen stickers.
The car has only one windscreen wiper; its wheels are held on by three bolts, not four; the steering column is hollow; instead of long-life headlight bulbs designed to last ten years, cheaper bulbs are fitted that can be easily replaced.
Nine cars in ten have a cracked windscreen, because no one can afford to replace the glass.Sanctions impinge on the lives of all Iraqis every moment of the day.
The battalion's Transport Platoon was ambushed by communist guerrillas as it was returning to base: a shot through the windscreen of one of the two trucks nearly hit its driver, but the convoy was able to escape the ambush without anybody being injured.
Display three posters in the car, one on each rear door window and one on the rear windscreen.
For example: "If on entering the vehicle we find the windscreen dirty", one (incorrect) option is "to drive fast to clean it".
Every car had at least Neves two pamphlets under their windscreen wipers and part-time staff handed out cards to every passerby willing to take one.
Two bullets shattered the windscreen; Claros was struck squarely on the left shoulder by the first, while the second glanced against his head.
Sixty cars, including a blood-red Mercedes-Benz and a gold 2006 Toyota with "Amarican" scrawled on its windscreen for $18,000 — one of the cheapest in the lot — gleamed in the sun.
"Notice the two little corners on the windscreen and the same shape on the C pillar," he added, referring to a roof support.
