Some are motivated by desperate need, others by disgust at the wastefulness all around them and others by an almost mystical desire to make works of art out of things -- castoff dolls, old refrigerators, windshield wipers -- that have been thrown away without a second thought.
Other options include old milk jugs, windshield washer-fluid jugs, or other plastic bottles.
The pickup was old, no heater, one windshield wiper, and bad tires; when the transmission went, there was no money to fix it.
Through the big Hummer windshield the old Baja route is a lonely, other-wordly landscape of cacti: the barrel cactus with its red needles, the organ pipe and the cholla.
Once they have chalked prices onto the windshields (an old Honda Civic for $1,900) they are open for business: a pop-up used car lot on the side of the road.
"Plus, it's now such a clunker that I figured nobody would kill us over an old Bronco with a broken windshield".
The roof slopes down toward the trunk from the center roof pillar (Mercedes calls this a coupe roofline), whereas the roof of the old car was flat from windshield to rear window.
When a harried worker rushes in complaining about an illegally parked company vehicle, he tells him to put an old parking ticket on the windshield and calms him by saying, "Listen, there are worse things in life".
De-fog your windshield with an old fashioned chalkboard eraser.
The official VIN tag is typically located at base of the windshield, but in older cars may be in the driver's side door sill or the in the engine compartment.
