The wipers on all three of mine worked okay as long as I replaced the blades every year, but the "defroster" only cleared the windshield within a couple of inches of the vent so I kept a short squeegee on board at all times. Steer, shift, squeegee...good times.
The wipers on the MG might be electric, but as with your VW, they are but a token. If it rains whilst driving, I have to reach for the interior wiper knob on the passenger side, set it in the upright position, then carefully rotate the knob on the driver's side to bring that wiper to the upright position, I say carefully because it has to synchronise the wiper gear so that the two wipers operate simultaneously. And all the time the rain is persisting down. All part of the fun of an old car.
And so do I. There's a market for such scenes that planners and others don't seem to realise. If you get the time, look up, St. Pancras Station. The corporate vandals wanted to demolish it because the prime site it stands on, would have been worth a King's ransom. One of our great poets, John Betjeman, got behind a campaign to save it. In the end instead of the bulldozers moving in, the station got an incredible makeover costing almost a billion pounds, it's now the London Terminus for Eurostar, the European train service that goes through the channel tunnel.
These are perilous times for statues
