From Truck Took Probe Down Wrong Road by Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane (the first of five excerpts from Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation). A couple of witnesses "noticed an old, dark-colored Chevy Caprice with tinted windows...."

This was no white van. It was probably not even a white man's car. This sounded like a "hoopty," a fellow detective said when he heard of the Caprice. "Man, that's a brother's car."

I'm mostly interested in the word "hoopty", but I'm sure there's something about race that someone could say.