tin lizzie
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She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine."
From Time Magazine Archive
The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thought that the company that fathered the tin lizzie sees a limousine in its future was startling enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
To talk about 1966 in 1929 phrases is to compare Gemini 10 to the tin lizzie.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were driving those old black tin lizzie type cars, the Model A types, with two men in the open section upfront and two in the cab section behind.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
