old banger

Check out the photo below - they're not exactly old bangers.

Young people often steal the most attractive and new models rather than old bangers.

Used car prices are going up due to this useless government paying over the odds for old bangers.

Cool people drive old bangers, regardless of cash.

But the result will be that an increasing number of these noisy old bangers will move to smaller airports.

They're not exactly old bangers.

On the freeway that runs hard by where I am staying, the cars swish by: you don't see too many old bangers.

In the 1980s, prices went vertical and even shabby, patched up old bangers were fetching big bucks.

We have the whole shebang: oil in the Atlantic and old bangers in the Pas-de-Calais.

He dubiously eyed the near derelict condition of some of the old bangers on the other side of the street, and nodded.

Known as "trampdrifting," old bangers are modified to drift at a minimal cost and are discarded once they reach the end of their usefulness.

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

Lots of people with old bangers use the AA instead of basic maintenance, and this is the Rastaman's second call-out of the day for a flat battery.

The road was jam-packed with cars, mostly old bangers, but the nearly new red Honda, gleaming under the light of a nearby lamp post, screamed at them as the odd man out.

On July 1, I plan to slip quietly out of England, alone, nineteen days ahead of the pack - that's 300 other old bangers manned by young blokes and girls.

For example, Easton's section police consider it abnormal if cars are out of context, such as expensive cars being driven in 'poor areas' and old bangers in the exclusive suburbs.

For anyone who started his or her driving careers in old bangers that had a worrying tendency to conk out at junctions and not restart, it's nerve-wracking hearing the engine die when you stop.

Coming the other way, between convoys of trucks, was a motley mixture of Soviet or Polish-built old bangers, sleek new Golfs, beaten-up Wartburgs, the occasional Toyota, brand-new Audis, or still spluttering Trabants.

Since crime peaked in the 1990s homeowners have halved burglary rates by locking their doors and windows, retailers and tackled shoplifting by guarding their open shelves with security devices, and vehicle manufacturers have made cars so difficult to steal that auto-crime is now largely confined to old bangers.

He is the mastermind of the entire superstition that persuades people to trade in their indefatigable old bangers and spend their cash on a new car; and he is, of course, indispensable to the economy and to the livelihoods of some of the poorest and hardest-working people in the country.