Originally Posted by
Chris_in_Miami
This reminds me of the old VW Beetle that I had years ago (and early 60's model if I recall correctly.) The windshield washer bottle was connected to the spare tire via a hose and operated on tire air pressure - no motor! Pretty clever unless you actually used it and forgot to top up your spare tire.
I once had a car that lost its wiper motor. We simply used poly rope to operate the wiper. Driver would pull, then passenger. System needed neither motor nor air, but worked much better with a second passenger. One bad feature was that you needed to keep the windows open for the rope.... which really sucked when it rained.