Another time I rigged the wipers on the Dodge D300 I was driving. (all mopar nuts know the infamous clunk of linkage bushings snapping, followed by the whine of the wiper motor with no movement from the wiper arms).
My dad had borrowed my Dakota in the fall because he didn't have a 4WD at the time and I had 2 4WD's. Come springtime, My '84 D50 4x4 needed a few parts so I fired up the old '75 D300 Dumptruck and was on my way to the parts store when it started raining. I clicked the wiper switch on and they ran for a few cycles... Clunk......
I pulled over and dug around inside the truck and I managed to find a cellphone charger for a 1990's Nokia Cellphone and a broken ratchet strap. I tied the nokia charger to one wiper arm and the broken ratchet strap to the other arm and ran them through the wing/vent windows in the doors. I drove to town like that, alternating between wiping the windshield and shifting the 4-speed. Shift, wipe, shift, wipe, shift, wipe.
I'm about 10 blocks from my dad's house when it started pouring and the old frayed ratchet strap snapped. I knew I'd only have one more pull left on the wipers (from the nokia charger) before I couldn't go any further, so I timed it just right...and 3 blocks from my dad's house I still had to roll down the window and stick my head out to see. I parked the dumptruck behind my dad's house and when I went in to get my keys, my dad says "Did you swim here?" "No... wipers broke in the dumptruck, it's out back sitting."
