Could "hoopty" be the folk process at work?

hoopty from -whoop or whoopie?

Is it possible that people let out a whoop {a yell?; a laugh?} when they saw someone's broke down, beat up car. And this happened so much that they started calling the cars a "whoop+tee" {the 'tee' added to make it sound better}. And eventually {since we Americans just feel we need to simplify things}, the 'w' was dropped, and there ya go-we ended up with the word "hoopty"...

On the other hand, maybe "hoop" was created to rhyme with 'coup' {you know, like the car} and then the 'tee' was added-to make it sound better...

Hey, who knows whether any of these theories or the one I gave earlier are real...

In other words, where did the word "hoopty" come from?

Your guess is as good as mine.


Sista Azizi