The Bring-a-Trailer SCAM that caught Hoovie! 

From my experience, people who compulsory collect muscle cars all have cars like this. The person who bought my dad’s triple black ‘68 charger 318 dropped in a hemi crate motor, and then parked it with the rest of his 50+ cars. It will never be driven maybe ever again, but it looks pretty and it has a hemi. These people are just another breed.

The seller was probably nervous and sweating seeing that Tyler Hoover was the winning bidder…realizing that EVERY issue with the car would be all over RU-vid

The guy sold this smoke and mirrors job to the one guy that was actually going to drive it. If he sold this to a regular collector, none of this would have come up.

The average price for a Hemi Superbird is around $250K with auction prices ranging from $300K-$1M. So buying one for half the price should ring every bell and raise every red flag.

That Wile-e coyote falling bit basically summed up Hoovie's entire experience so far haha

Paying 6 figures sight-unseen is pretty stupid

Maybe if that LeBaron convertible had been owned by Jon Voight, it would have been worth it

I'm probably the only person on the planet who's TOO honest when I sell shit. I've fucked myself over many times by telling people every single thing that's wrong with whatever I'm selling. And at the same time, I've been ripped off just about every time I've bought something from someone else. Where the hell is the karma at?

This is a good opportunity for BaT to really crack down on these sellers who don't engage or have a lack of information or documentation such as PPI. I used to think that if it was on Bat then it likely going to be a great buying experience. Now, not so much. Still a very cool car and Looking forward to seeing it completely sorted out.

At abt 4 minutes “… So I asked the wife if I could buy a super bird and she said no, then I kept talking and then eventually she said yes.” The story of just about every car guy everywhere with a long suffering non-car wife!

Glad the sellers info is public. Hopefully he won’t have a chance to scumbag other people

If I was spending 100k plus, I would fly out with a mechanic and have an inspection. Especially if it’s listed as t-boned.

Dude, I feel for you. I had a similar experience with my 68 Camaro. I knew the big block was tired, but I didn't realize how tired....replaced it with a GM ZZ454, and then I started spraying a fire hose of cash at it. I have basically replaced everything with top quality components.....so 4 years later I am at about the same money invested as I would have been starting with a proper car in the first place. I have since found out the shop was a "puppy mill" of hot rods. I will say this...the car is TRULY mine....through time, blood (literally), I have come to love it and not focus on being shaded, and I have learned a ton!

Remember when you traded you F150 lightning for a Hummer which had a roof leak. And you did it for clicks. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

One of the morals of this story is that Bring-a-Trailer is not a "reputable seller". It is an internet marketplace that differs from Craigslist only in the quality of the photos and the huge fee they charge. They are not a dealership and not warranting that the description is in any way accurate.

I was always taught in aviation, and advise my customers, to only spend 80% of your budget on your airplane. That way, if you do need to sort stuff out you still have 20% of the budget left. I apply this same process to my car purchases!

Tyler needs his own playlist on this channel

Hoovie’s stories make me feel better about all my automotive mishaps over the years. Thanks Hoovie!

"Holes that I could double fist" Are we not doing phrasing anymore? 😜

I once went to look at a 66 mustang fastback. I had asked the seller about possibly driving it home (about 100 miles) and he replied that the car was absolutely drivable. I decided a trailer was a better idea so I rented a trailer and went to look at the car. It did run and it had all new front suspension but the seller was VERY reluctant to let me drive the car (he claimed he was worried about the tag and registration but he was also a local sheriffs deputy so I didn't think there would be a problem). I finally assured him there would be NO SALE at any price without driving the car. He agreed that I could drive the car if we remained inside his subdivision. The car wallowed around the road in desperate search of something to hit, I was terrified, and the further we went the worse it got. When we got back to his house I crawled under the car where I discovered the shock towers were rusted away. At that point he produced a catalog showing that you could buy every piece that was rusted, he KNEW what he was selling! What a rotten skunk! I had just wasted an evening towing a trailer that I wasted money to rent for 200 miles.

I don't know Hoovie personally, but he's likable and I've thoroughly enjoyed his content over the years. Anyone who would screw him over on purpose is just a craptastic human being. Not making accusations, just one man's assessment.

Saw an interview with ex Ford and BMC Motorsport Director Stuart Turner and he openly laughed at people who pay big money for old race cars. Reckons all the iconic cars go straight to the top collectors of kept by manufacturers and what's left has been been rebodied, VIN swapped to avoid taxes, plundered for parts, wrecked and so on and was basically junk the teams don't want any more.

Hoovie knew this was a pile of shit kit car when he first saw it: it was bought specifically for the channel views, don’t try to convince me otherwise.

Click bait , He was not scammed , He bought A resto mod that was not completed and assembled partially improperly . You got a real super bird for 1/10th its resale value . a 528 hemi is a 15k to 20k engine just by its self . < pre inflation . Listening to your tales of woe about the tuning is nothing short of ridiculous. Its a fast ecu . there is a ton of support for it . Struts and suspension would be a pain to get the right struts. But, with the right parts it will probably be yards better than the Chrysler front suspension that came under them. Those cheap ass Aero wheels should have given you a clue that there was a mix of cheap and pricey parts. you could have flown out there and inspected the car before purchase . Were you scammed ? NO . does it need work ? Of course. Resto mods can be full of bugs at first , It could be a case of passing on headaches as you said it went through a few purchasers who most likely couldn't figure out the ecu and cooling . So quit mewing like you have been burned . Now that you have made it public scored a bunch of money from RU-vid with your click bait titles . That the car itself generated . publicly fix it proper and you could make your money back easily. Get your snoopy friend's and start back searching its origins and see if you can find the original block. or a number coded match block and turn it back into a restoration. either way you won . sometimes your tails of woe are just so fake and contrived it is silly .

This actually makes me so happy that a person who will pay 130 grand for an unknown car is proof that having money doesn't mean that people have sense.

When you get screwed over and ghosted by a seller like that, your only recourse is to take it to the courts. I used to do title work in Florida, and I once had a guy who bought a car off e-bay. It was a 68 Chevelle. I don't remember how much he paid for it. After he got the car the seller disappeared. Never got the title or a registration to prove the seller was the legal owner of the car and without either of those documents you can't take legal possession of a car. I helped him out as much as I could. It took him several months but he was eventually able to take legal ownership of the car.

What?? You mean to tell me something unfortunate happened to Hoovie?! 😱🤯

Honestly bring back the old NASCAR rules... That's why Rally is still awesome, they still have minimum production requirements

As my dad has always told me, "when you buy a used car, you're buying someone else's problems." Those words are very true.

Good on BaT to do what they could to "make things right". Even better it was sold to someone who could "make money" off the deception....so it's not that bad of a hit. From what I've seen, when this Superbird is done, it's going to be pretty bad aZZ!! Well it already is, but when it's fully running right....that's what I'm saying. Vroommm!!

roll cage + no padding on it + no helmet = serious head injury when some clown runs into you while they are focused on diddling their phone instead of the road.

The first time I saw this car, the $90 wheels on it told me everything I needed to know about it. Literally the biggest red flag I've ever seen on a vehicle in my entire career. 🤣

Hello, crazy LeBaron guy here 👋 I actually told Mr. Hoovie in great detail all of the extensive issues with this car. He wasn’t listening to anything I was telling him, and was busy hopping around from LeBaron to LeBaron obsessing about wether each had the automated indicator voice or not and playing with all of the controls in each one.

Had this kind of thing happen to me. I bought a '65 Rambler, "without rust, runs and drives" and it turned out to be a complete disaster. Almost everything in it needed to be rebuilt, and every body panel was full of Bondo. Buyer beware!

Hey Tyler, so enjoy watching your channel, but feel your pain at all these scams! At one time (before yours), the most feared comment a business owner could hear was: "Hi, I'm Mike Wallace from 60 Minutes". Perhaps it is time to use your fame and car knowledge to start calling out these scum-bags. Every scam-artist on Bring-a-Trailer needs to know there is a Jay Leno or Tyler of Hoovies garage lurking with a camera and large audience.

Spending that much on a car, you need to see it in the flesh

Damn an aquitance of mine sold his Superbird for a little over 2 grand in the late 80s, still haven't told him how much their worth now cause I know he'd be kicking himself

Man... that sucks... but as a car guy who has built a 76 vette fully restored, and a autoX mustang Cam C class, rebuilt a 97 7.3 f250 4x4... You NEVER buy something without going and looking/driving it, EVER Never buy it if they wont agree to a cold and hot start Never buy if the oil is fresh and clean, same for transmission fluid Will i go look at something and buy it on the side of the road from a total stranger? Absolutely... blew my dad's mind when i did that with my truck... doesnt matter, u have the title, bill and the major mechanical looks ok, and you can fix the rest

Meep meep! There you go Tyler.

If this was my car. And this is indeed a real Hemi car… I’d send it to a reputable restoration shop and have them go through and put everything back to original. You’d have quite the investment on your hands Tyler

Don't EVER buy a car without looking at it firsthand, EVER

Seems like a pretty nice car once you sort out the engine, suspension, and tune. I can see someone paying $130k or even more if it’s running perfectly just for how it looks and the nostalgia factor.

Guy I knew in High School bought a really nice,low miles,Alpine White Superbird 440/auto in 1978 for $1,600!

Hoovie ! Say it ain't so Tyler ! A Dealer actually misrepresented a Collector Car ? ? Wow, Who'd a thunk it.

The take away for me from watching this: If the Seller does not answer your questions then DO NOT BID and WALK AWAY.

BaT gets awful reviews. And you can bet you would not have gotten their five grand fee back from them if you were not a RU-vid celebrity.

I guarantee you the first thing the old owner did before hoovey was disconnect the speedometer, so that the odometer would not rack up anymore miles. And then he proceeded to drive the shit out of it and blow it up. That's very likely why it has a different motor, I speculated this on several of movies videos as well.

Been there sort of. Bought my 1974 Maverick Grabber from Arizona and I live in Ohio. Talked to the car lot and they didn't lie. The car had 90k original on it, had been painted once covering the stripe kit, was fully loaded including AC, PS, Disc brake, auto idle kickdown, trim package, seatbelt interlock the works. Little old lady who's husband owned it. That was true. He bought it for himself when he retired, and because he had a bad back ordered it with a super soft vinyl bench seat, rare option considering grabbers came with buckets, only a few hundred made in 74'. He died and she only drove it a few times and decided to sell it, local dealer helped her do that. Well, the story was true however none of the fluids in the car had ever been changed save for the oil, even then it was old and thin. The coolant had eaten up the aluminum to the point it was so soft I put my finger through the timing cover replacing hoses. it was the consistency of a cream on the inside. The thermactor emissions port had been blocked by a BB to keep it open but got sucked into the motor, so someone put another in it and it got sucked in. 2 BB's bouncing around cylinders.... The thermactor emissions had been partially removed from the exhaust and the car had no radio, radio antenna or horn button. The lot quick sprayed the car after I said I wanted it and lost the antenna, so they took out the radio to install a new one but I closed on the deal before they finished so they stopped working on it. I ended up just pulling the 302 out and swapping it for a fresh built 289 I did. When I took the heads off the 302 there were 2 cylinders with hundreds of BB craters in them with the BB embedded in the pistons. Glad I swapped the motor. Heck glad I only spent 2,800 dollars on an original Grabber in 2007! Now shes my pride and joy..

They need to put the seller on blast to protect other people

I live in Arkansas. In 2000 I purchased a 1996 Impala Super Sport from a person in Canada...sight unseen other than picture. The car was listed as only having 6,000 miles. The process of importing the car was rather interesting but doable. I flew up to drive the car back to Arkansas and have to say the seller was every honest about the car...it was spotless and beautiful. Not a single rock chip or scratch anywhere! Car was unique due to Canadian market cars requiring some things the US market cars didn't have, such as daytime running lights.

Even if you drop $30k into that beast IMO it’ll be worth it. Imagine how much it’ll be worth in 10 years. Pain in the ass I’m sure to deal with these headaches but hoovie is making RU-vid revenue on the saga. Enjoy the ride hoovie not everyone can own a superbird ❤️

I fell in love with Hoovie’s bad car adventures somewhere between the stolen Mercedes and the Lebaron funeral. RIP both hoopties

I feel for you pal. You should call out that seller though. There might be other potential victims out there that need to avoid him.

"There's was nothing I could do with the car, so I ended up digging a hole and burying it." Said with a completely straight face, as if that's completely normal.

Sir, I used to wait on you at a restaurant in Atlanta. You were always a kind gentleman, you tipped well, and even though you were so tall you couldn't fit under the tables, forcing us servers to reroute around you, you were well liked by all the staff. You were a true pleasure to serve! I have recently learned about the "Tesla Jump" and Alex Choi's role in the act. I was disappointed in his role in that video going viral. Below is what I have commented on his videos about that role he played. Thank you for listening and thank you for being a genuinely nice person in real life! Mr. Choi, I so enjoy many atuomotive RU-vidr postings. It depresses me to state that you have become my first to be blacklisted in my mind. Your content about the Tesla going airborne was in so many ways outside what I believe the community is about. Yes, you were not the driver. Thank you! However, you were present. You positioned yourself ahead of time to record the event . So, basically, you supported an individual who used a vehicle that was not his own, to perform a destructive action that resulted in 1. The vehicle being totaled. 2. Passengers lives being put at risk. 3. Innocent people having their property being destroyed. 4. Innocent property owners undergoing hardship when they just want to continue their normal lives getting to and from work and running errands. 5 Endangering the life of a person's pet. (Cat) You were okay with someone destroying another person's property. (No difference between a corporation's property or a private individual, maybe using an app, to reduce their car payments. Why? Because there isn't a difference. The Tesla wasn't his to destroy on a whim.) All this was just for views. Shame on you! Really! I cannot think of any action that would be more cruel. I have enjoyed your content. Content from others too! But my liked content didn't involve the destruction of anyone else's property, nor the damage of the property of innocent bystanders. Your glorification of such disregard of another's property is SHIT! Go on a rally. How would you feel when your fire farting Lambo is driven into a lake just for Shits and Giggles! Maybe insurance even decides not to reimburse you because they say you thought it was okay so that you could get RU-vid views. (Which puts zero $'s back into your pockets to continue the loan payments.) Good luck with that claim! Correct this disaster. Call out the crap person who performed this stunt. Help out your own community. Redeem yourself!

8:45 When your planning on possibly paying that much for a car, why not pay just a little more to have a vehicle inspector look it over first!

Ed, you’ve got to give us the backstory on Cleetuses LS swapped Murci.

Oh man. The "That's all folks" absolutely killed me. That was vold blooded Ed. Lol

The balls on this seller if he knows who Tyler is and who is audience is...talk about insane! You guys are better people than I am, I would have at least put out his name on blast.

Imagine if Hoovie and Mr. Spaghetti got together, the room would be full of complaints. 🤣

"Partial re-body" ?? I'm one hundred percent sure that's a vin-swap to an entirely different replacement body shell. I highly doubt there's a single screw coming from the original car.

12:13 the BIGGEST flaw i see with that car, is that wonk ass stereo who in their RIGHT MIND restores a car, or atleast tries/claims to restore a car, but then puts some crap like that in it like yeah sure the original might have less accessibility for modern things, but that just ruins the whole originality of the interior

Bring a trailer is full of bad experiences. I’ll stay away from that site.

I’ve never lied about anything while selling my cars and people treat me like a liar. So I guess I’ll start lying.

'There was no meep-meep' - Hoovie. That hit me in the feels bro!🤣

The thing about it being a garage queen which is only good to look at is that its ugly as sin.

“Broken hairdryer and a vacuum competing to make the most annoying noise”😂😂

I’ve had countless of times when looking for a classic car that the buyer tells me it’s absolutely mint and rustfree. Upon arriving I see a wreck where the only thing holding what’s left of the body to the frame is some ducttape work. I’ve seen countless cars that were just rotten, had an immense amount of body filler or had an engine that would not ever run right anymore. All of those had good pictures which didn’t show any of those issues. Moral of the story, be very careful when buying classic cars. Always ask about intricate details beforehand and always inspect the car before you buy it

If you were actually stupid enough to buy a $130k car without getting the title for it first then what you get is on you! Before buying any classic car look it over "in" person, learn to read Vin codes and always make sure they have the clear and clean title for it.

Bring a Trailer should do what Carfection does, send there own trained photographer who knows cars, might cost a bit more but they know what there selling on there site, Rj in Oz

Mr. Hoove has a addiction for below market value cars. $100K is like $1k dine-out-in to him. Just another dinner. Where most of us 98% would do a thorough inspection when spending that kind of money……..More Power to Him!!! It’s nice to see a Video Channel presenting a fool collector. Makes Me only dream…..

Beautiful car, lots of good parts there. Nothing that can't be fixed if you really want to drive it. Looks like not that bad of a deal for what it is.

Wife & I were just watching this and I told her - THIS is why when I fix a car up for sale, it gets EVERYTHING done to it as best I possibly can! When I'm done with it, I don't want anyone to have to do much of anything. Unless it's a parts car or something (duh). She just nods and goes... yeah, I see that now!

Once again, Hoovie lets his heart override his head & he gets dudded. If it sounds too good to be true, then it usually is!

Why would anyone buy a car that expensive sight unseen? There's a Hoovie born every minute!

Happy Friday everyone

something about tyler, hardly know the guy, will likely never meet him in my life but he just rubs me off as a weasel

Im sure this happens more than a few times a year on BaT. Tylers just got the youtube platform to make it publicly known. BaT should be liable for giving this scammer a place to rip someone off like this. They should buy back any scam cars sold in their auctions.

BAT should set up escrow accounts so the seller doesn't get paid until the buyer verifies the car meets the description and all is disclosed. This will promote honestly in their ads.

Dose not matter if its Bring A Trailer or Reverb or any other site on the old nets, its “Buyer Be Ware!”!!!!

My audi s4 flooded in houston, ecm/wires everything electrical was underwater. Sent it to the auction, flood title was announced and the person who bought it paid less than a quarter what my car was worth but i accept it the offer. Now he's dealing with more issues than he thought and keeps harassing me, and is taking me to court. Some people get a "good deal" on stuff because its obviously not perfect but they expect a brand new car and complain about small issues. Hoovie's issues are nothing compared to what other people deal with and wouldve cost less than $3000 to fix this super bird

Walk it off, Hoove. We all make mistakes. You got up, dusted yourself off and went back into the arena. You're a good man.

I purchased a car sight unseen, but what I did do was pay a 3rd party inspector through ebay to look at it for me. He went on a test drive, inspected the body, took a ton of pics, checked the VIN, etc and put a report together for me and called me on the phone to discuss. He didn';t catch everything but he would have caught anything hugely obvious such as it not starting, loud engine knock and holes in the floor! Well worth the couple hundred bucks I paid.

Know the feeling. I once bought a 'running and driving' project car, and once it was delivered I very quickly realised the engine was siezed solid!

The comments were skeptical the entire time and he kept wishing they weren't right 🤣

It is really bad when the seller of a rare car is a rip off , a real collector keeps there car in excellent shape takes pride it is a piece of history.

Imagine being scammed that hard and your balance - considering the incomes from the Superbird videos - is still positive :D

"You couldn't hear the motor over the pumps, couldn't hear a 528 Hemi". Could you hear a 426 Hemi? Hahahaha

cant you just sue him? find the previous owner at the DMV , get a lawyer and get to work? wierd how little you can do in the us when they sell you crap cars and lie..

"Bring a Trailer" is a joke. Probably cost all of a grand to set up, and with no guarantees, no buyer protection, no seller protection -- no nothing!

Watching these videos I wouldn't buy even a new car in US. Every car seems to be a scam

Bought a classic from a showroom in the dead of winter and didn't drive it. Paid for it, brought it home and the repairs began. Over heating, hot start issue, carb float was flooding secondaries, rear end gears too high for highway cruising, etc...... $4,000 later and I am getting close to having a dependible driver.

I’m so glad we don’t have this in the uk. It’s like the Wild West in America. Such a shame because this car looks beautiful it’s just been really badly built. Good luck with it buddy.

That's what being mind-boggingly naive gets you.

STOP SAYING "NASCARS" You are a well respected car guy and you're saying this?!

Best thing to do is hire someone who is an expert on what you're purchasing to do an inspection before making your final bid. I bought a fully restored 1954 Corvette years ago for full price sight unseen except for pictures from a dealer in Ft Lauderdale. When it was shipped and arrived the fun began because the car was a total fake. I hired an attorney who advised me to spend the money on the car and not him, because he was familiar with the seller, and that the seller has disappeared in the past after ripping people off and losing lawsuits, only to reemerge later under a different dealer name in a different state. Buyer beware.

Sometimes when you think you are scamming someone, they're scamming you. What comes around goes around. Better luck next time you think you'll get a $500,000 car for less than half.

I spent $150,000 and waited 3 years to resto/mod from a Porsche 911 Targa to a twin turbo 3.2 with a G50-50 transmission. Prepaid the builder in full, car is incomplete. Took the car home, hired my own tuner to start the car. Drove it 4 times, Clutch starts slipping at 425 HP. Took it back to the builder, he dropped the engine and transmission twice and all they can say is the car is a Frankenstein and I need to cut the transmission so it fits properly. Now I am not getting spark. Car won't start. Car looks beautiful, still sitting in my garage for another 3 years. Never prepay anyone in full. For the money I invested, I could have bought a GT3RS. This is $150,000 I spent in 2015.

Some people have no consciousness. Find out where he lives, steal his dog and leave a Roadrunner figurine in the kennel.

So as it goes the flying wiener mobile was a bust. I’m positive he’ll get over it soon.