"Clunker" not in OED?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/19/2011 03:56 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>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.

And does the picture show a clunker?   (If not,
this is not an antedating!  At least for the usual sense.)

Joel

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