Noun

(en noun)

* 1943 , Ivar Lund, The end of Lucifer's tail , page 348:

He had seated himself in the farmer's old fliver , [and] ridden for some miles.

* 2002 , Hartwick New York -- Heart of Otsego County , page 244:

A natural born mechanic and tinkerer, he kept many an old fliver on the road.

* 2002 , William V. Reynolds, Call of the Pines , page 256:

"Come on old fliver . Don't let us down now," he coaxed. But the faithful machine had gone as far as it could. The fuel mix had burned

until the last minute. Now the moisture in the tank was too much for the firing system.

* 2008 , Isaac Hallenberg, Rustbelt Fables , page 106:

But with my new job I was able to buy an old fliver down at Able Andy's car lot.

* 2008 , Eds James Lee Hutchinson, Bombs Away: WWII Eighth Air Force Stories , page 270:

[...] the twenty-one inch wheels handled the poor roads and the dependable old "fliver " had enough steel in it to build two of today's cars.

Noun

(en noun)

An automobile, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.

* {{quote-journal

, year = 1920 , month = July , first = Lyman , last = Seelye , title = Quite a Picnic , journal = The Overland Monthly , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5VAAAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA66&dq=flivver&lr=

PRA1-PA65,M1

, passage = Billy being too poor to own a car, had hired a cheap flivver for the day, and was purposely ten minutes behind the time, but to his disgust found the procession not yet started. }}

* {{quote-book

, year = 1998 , title = Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930 , first = Nigel Anthony , last = Sellars , publisher = University of Oklahoma Press , isbn10 = 0806130059 , isbn = 9780806130057 , ol = 683367M , page = 180 , passage = These workers were often joined by impoverished small farmers from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri who pooled their resources to buy a flivver and follow the harvest into the Dakotas and Canada. }}