Cash Strapped Brazilian Builds His Own Car From Scratch

I live in Paraíba at a city distant few kilometers from São José de Piranhas, city where Orismar lives, and I must add few bits of more information.
Paraíba is one of the poorest states of Brazil, and like in many states of the country, to have a car is a luxury that many can’t even imagine to have. Just for you to have an idea, in many small cities 90% of all the transportation is done by motorcycles, and when I say motorcycle, I am referring to the small ones, 125cc and below. So, poor people can only afford to have that kind of transportation and hardly to have one car, also because the taxes that the user would have to pay, every year, makes that “dream” even harder. By the way, the motor used in his car is a motorcycle one, adapted for this new use.
For many poor people that have a job and a home, the motorcycle is the only option, used in most cases. What can we say about a homeless having a car? It just wouldn’t happen. Maybe he could have a motorcycle, but he realy wanted a car, a dream from when he was a child, that is something that he would be able to buy.
Just for reference. A used car in Brazil, with 10 years of use, can cost something around US$ 6000,00. The minimal salary for a person that has a regular job is something around US$ 350,00 per month. And Orismar doesn’t have a regular job, so we expect that he has an even lower income. If you consider that he has to feed himself, and pay other expenses that anyone would have to survive, there is not much left in the end.
Then, after all I wrote above… do you still “wonder why he didn’t just borrow someone’s car or at least buy a second (or third) hand ride for himself”?