Many words, however, are an addition to the language locally, for example a skoroskoro for a jalopy (or a matric dance for the same!).
It is not just the poor chap with the old jalopy.
I found that virtually all cars ran on unleaded petrol and only a few ancient jalopies still ran on leaded petrol.
It is the person with an old jalopy built in 1965 or earlier which invariably is not fit to pass a roadworthiness certificate.
This figure of 40,000 includes not only cars, people with "jalopies", but people driving luxury cars and business firms with heavy and light lorries.
Those who have indulged in the game of making amateur cars know that we call them jalopies.
Then he would have been 25 years of age and thinking of getting married, and that would have been the end of the jalopy.
Parents were forced to pack up jalopies with their families and a few personal belongings, and head west in search of work.
