And now for something completely different. But first, a definition from Wikipedia, in case "hooptie" wasn't in your vocabulary as yet: Hooptie... an old, decrepit, unreliable and often nonfunctional ...

I'm not a very skilled modelmaker, and I made the mistake of starting my ambitious build with a crappy AMT 1970 Impala kit (because I couldn't find a 1965 Impala kit in those pre-internet days). Still ...

How do you top that? Here's how. The Bigfont truck looked great and went around the track pretty quickly for a 43-year-old Japanese minitruck with 3/4 of a small-block Chevy V8, but an unfortunate ...

CARS.COM — All right, all right, just because your car doesn’t have a BMW, Lexus or Jaguar emblem on its grille doesn’t make your car a hooptie like the one Sir Mix-A-Lot rapped about back in ’89. In ...

The festive scene is set in Irwindale, California, where David Freiburger is back hosting your favorite kind of holiday special—with questionable cars competing for glory—the second edition of the ...

$3k Hooptie Challenge Season 1 is a dynamic automotive reality TV series hosted by David Freiburger and Brian Lohnes, showcasing budget car racing with a focus on creativity and mechanical ingenuity.