#hoopty

[damn-these-eyes]

picture perfect

[heavenorsilverstone]

if mclaren get a suspicious anonymous email threatening to expose their illegal activites right after this race…just know it was NOT from me

[knightsofrayx]

Best $70 I've spent all year

[auxilioooo]

i’m gonna be busy tonight

[housedyke]

I made a new $500 ko-fi goal because not having grant money from school means now I don't have money for the dental work I need done

Eventually 'll have an actual shop put together, but in the meantime it's up in case anyone feels like throwing me a few bucks

[tododeku-or-bust]

I'm sick. Because now I gotta find a car within a month. Life sure does find a way....to get on my nerves. 😭

[cowhides]

just decided im going to romanticize my shitty midwestern life

[96-problems]

[placesyoucallhome]

I'll consider the reference complete when they give me a towel fashion accessory!

They already gave a shoe ship actually....

to do list: obtain the Heart of Gold Skyslipper

[smokinthottie]

date night canceled forever cuz the car threw up

[kornwulf]

Why did we, as a culture, stop using the word Jalopy. I wanna refer to my hunk-o-junk minitruck as my

Jalopy

rather than just "a beater"

[gethooptie]

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[seat-safety-switch]

Recently, I was watching my cousin Neutral's dog, when he ate a whole pile of iron supplements. The dog, not the cousin. This would not ordinarily be a problem, except that I live next to a junkyard that still have a 1950s-style cartoon electromagnet in operation.

As you might expect, Rover (not his real name) was stuck up there for a really long time, until I was able to negotiate with the crane operator for his safe release. What price was on Rover's head? Paying their inflated rates for an alternator. I mean, fifty bucks for an 80-amp? This is robbery, I bitched, while trying to get the charge reduced to "some overpriced dashboard trim." Under duress, I paid it, and the dog was fine.

Of course, the true junkyard connoisseur can always make a silk purse out of a dog's ransom. When I selected my alternator, I got smart: I looked at all the terrible, holed-out hoopties and picked the one with an electrical fire in the interior. That can only mean one thing: poorly-installed giant subwoofers. And those babies need juice. Suddenly, I was walking out of there with an "80 amp" alternator that could produce four times that amount of jam, thanks to a heinously sketchy rewind courtesy of our town's least reputable stereo store.

You wouldn't expect such a prize to leave the junkyard uncontested. The crane operator immediately realized the scam I was pulling as I tried to pass off a chrome-plated, water-cooled thing of beauty (with a bunch of random chisel marks as I tried to force it off the tensioner) and started to blather about changing the deal. No dice: even dog-kidnapping junkyards have a moral code, I explained to him, and surely he wouldn't want me to bring it forth to The Council.

Anyway, I turned it into a go-kart motor and gave it to the neighbourhood kids. Alternators are kind of a fad, anyway: all you need to run a car's electrical system is to occasionally rotate a large ferrous object through some magnets. Rover is really good at "roll over," and as long as he doesn't hear that as "play dead," he should be able to at least keep the lights on, which will save me a lot of money in batteries too.

[agelessphotography]

Vanessa AKA Chingona, at a Hoopty CC street party and cruise in Pico-Union, Owen Harvey, 2023

[webshootersandwingdings]

First look at LEGO The Marvels 76232 “The Hoopty”

I love that there are flerkens and the vibe is slice of life with everyone just hanging out in Carol’s kitchen 🥹