"Clunker" not in OED?

[Garson O'Toole]

Kudos to Joel and Fred for raising the topic of "clunker" and to
Charlie and Ben for noting the alternative spelling "klunker". Here is
a 1930 citation.

Cite: 1930 February 26, Seattle Daily Times, Pictorial Notes on
Current News, Photo Caption, Page 32, Seattle, Washington.
(GenealogyBank)

HIS HONOR RIDES—Mayor Frank Edwards as he appeared yesterday on his
mighty charger for the opening of the Automobile Show of 1930, with
Cap'n Dobbsie riding a "klunker," one of the show exhibits.

The picture shows the mayor on a horse and the Captain in a car adjacent.

Garson

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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>> Joel has pointed out a significant omission in OED.  HDAS has _clunker_
>> with a 1942 first use.  I see a 1938 citation in Newspaperarchive, but I'll
>> look some more before posting details.
>
> I wrote about the automotive type of "clunker" (and "junker") in a May 2009 Word
> Routes column, with cites back to 1936.
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> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1849/
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> And then on ADS-L I posted a 1933 cite for "klunker":
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> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0905B&L=ADS-L&P=15845
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