On our way in to Lima Central on the bus from the airport, we noticed that their cars were running around perfectly in spite of bits missing — wing mirrors, side windows, main windows, even entire windscreens. We laughed at each one as and when we spotted them, “Look at that one! It doesn’t even have a windscreen at all!” It never rains in Lima, you see, or only once in a blue moon.
Suddenly, we saw a car crossing our path without a bonnet but no engine either! Just an empty cavity in the front of the car. How did they manage to get a car running without an engine!? Then we saw that it was a VW beetle.
(Event happened June 1986)
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