joy car

plural joy cars

1. A car or vehicle ridden in for pleasure.

   To my way of thinking the Cadillac is to be an irridescent example of durability and "long suffering" of what a joy car should be.

   1911, Unattributed, The Portsmouth Herald

   2 more examples

   A “joy car” is being used by the Church Extension Society of Rochester, to bring happiness to hundreds of aged persons, orphans and needy children and their parents.

   1922, Unattributed, Motor Age, page 35

   A “joy car” waited by the low wooden platform with already one or two apprehensive passengers biting their nails in the front scats. The hand on that wooden lever began it all.

   1939, Loch,t.a., chapter V, in I Left England, page 50