Once more in the snow

I once had an old Saab, a three-banger (a three-cylinder, two stroke engine). The windshield wiper motor quit on me one winter and it took a while to find one in a junk yard. I could manually operate the
wipers by reaching under the dash and moving the levers, a bit tricky when driving a standard shift. But, if the windshield was cold, the snow would fly right over and so I didn't need to use the wipers.