LWW wrote:
Perhaps it's a regional phrase, but ... ugly, beat up junk that somehow still works properly.
Imagine a 50 year old CADILLAC without a straight piece of sheet metal, 4 different tires, a cracked windshield, rips in the interior yet somehow starts, stops, runs well, the air blows cold and the radio and clock still work along with all the power doodads.
That's a bone.
Make it 60 years old and I'd buy it (and my wife would probably put me in the garage with it).