'dilapidated car' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe a car that is in poor condition due to disrepair or age. Example sentence: I had to pass a dilapidated car on my way to work this morning.
Woolwine met the reporter at the station in a dilapidated car.
At the bottom of the barrel, 20 yards below, was a dilapidated car.
He's spent the five years since he and David graduated from Stanford puttering around the United States in his dilapidated car, making a movie about subsistence farmers.
The potholes around the dilapidated car park were deeper and wider, the barbed wire atop two corners of the ground – once unnoticeable – jagged violently into the sky.
Most memorably of all, there's the video for Mabu, in which Babcock enters his dilapidated car, Mabu, in a real-life destruction derby, before giving it a funeral attended by, among others, a pet chameleon borrowed from a pet shop.
But, for several months a year, he set off into the English countryside in a dilapidated car, at first with his beloved wife Lola, later with his astonished and frequently exhausted research assistant of the moment, to map and describe the noteworthy buildings of every county in England.
Nobody's gained, except for the super-rich in the immediately neighbouring houses who prefer a small, dilapidated car-parts warehouse to an inevitably taller block of flats.
It was cacophonous and dirty, full of crazed motorists in dilapidated cars.
Thus a few thousand owners of private planes soak up vast government subsidies while millions of rail commuters ride in dilapidated cars.
A regular taxi customer in Tarrytown, Mr. Rutland noted that this cab company was notorious for its fleet of dilapidated cars, and that their drivers were even worse.
Antique road show: atmospherically dilapidated cars and buildings (EPA) Day two Day two Sunday morning: go to church The first church in Havana was Espiritu Santo (13) at Acosta 161.
