Words similar to jalopy

Example sentences for: jalopy

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Fountain pen, dirt road, manual transmission, steam engine, hand-woven fabric, conventional weapons, general practitioner, natural childbirth, cloth diaper --these are backwords dating anywhere from the era of the jalopy to the nuclear age.
Even when Keynesian macroeconomists were at their most hubristic, none of them claimed that macroeconomic "fine-tuning" could make an economic jalopy into a Porsche.