jalopy

His cause, like a rusty old jalopy, is falling apart before he turned the key.

And yet, not only has the McConnell machine failed to shift into higher gear, it has sputtered worse than a beat-up jalopy.

Whether centrist voters are buying the rhetorical jalopy Mitt Romney is trying to sell them will be key here.

It looked something like a cross between a schoolboy's jalopy and a scaled-down army tank of former times.