Jalopy

"I shut my eyes: redneck and juicehead and fuckwad and crapshoot and hothead, words floating around me like leaves coming off a tree, like i'm a kid lying on my back in the grass watching them come down: jive and joystick and jalopy and hollow and holy and Merry Christmas and Whose turn is it to put the star on the tree? (149).

The guys jalopy was so trashy that he abandoned it in the desert.