Goddamn it, I got to get jalopies. I don’t want nothing for more’n twenty-five, thirty bucks. Sell ’em for fifty, seventy-five. That’s a good profit. Christ, what cut do you make on a new car? Get jalopies. I can sell ’em fast as I get ’em.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 7. The greed of the car dealer for selling on jalopies for maximum profit is insatiable. He knows that there are huge margins to be made on these old, delapidated pieces of junk.