the car which kamal had brought today to fetch raghuvir was an ancient ambassador , whose white paint was peeling off to give rise to many patches of metallic discoloration , whose doors when opened did so with painful squeaks , whose engine growled and grumbled for several minutes and took many turnings of the keys in the ignition before it finally came to some semblance of a life , after which the dilapidated contraption somehow began to make its way forth on the pot holed ludhiana roads , its undulated motion threatening to break at once all the rusted bolts and nuts of the mechanical hag , while causing the springs of the seats underneath the drivers and passengers posterior to screech and groan most sorely .