Gamblertown changes every year just FYI, that's kinda the whole thing. WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS STILL (it's fun and you get swag): https://schedule.planhero.com/events/cb62a93fc/2026-gambler-500-volunteer-sign-up Park in your campsite... need to go somewhere use your legs. Anyone driving recklessly in camp will be asked to leave. You don't need a cheap car, just come, have fun, see the bands, make friends, and witness the spectacle... Camp is on grass this year, no fires b

It's really whatever you want, nobody cares. We've never defined what a gambler car actually is, rules are for dweebs. The original...

Gambler 500 offroad navigation adventure

Only a special kind of someone enjoys the struggle of extracting an old, abandoned Ford Ranger from the forests of the Colorado Rockies,...

We're headed to Moab during Easter Joop Safari to clean up the desert and have some fun. There is no centralized camp or registration but...

I think cabovers are cool, here are all the terrible renderings I've done on my phone with "YouDoodle"... It seems as if car culture and manufacturers are starting to agree, let's make this a thing again.

When we created this in 2014 it was not intended to be a worldwide phenomena, it was to go have fun in cheap cars with a few friends and you should too, wherever you are. "The Gambler" in Oregon is now a giant festival of sorts for people to show off their creations, meet/reunite with friends from across the country/world, race at HooptieX and explore Oregon's amazing backcountry while making public lands a better place. The term Gambler is now a calling card for cool cheap

Gambler has always made vagueness the gatekeeper to events, assuming that if you need too many details before you even show up, the lack of details during events will probably drive you mad (years 1-3 participants simply showed up to a parking lot and simply given a single sheet of paper with coordinates to follow). Think of it as the world's biggest, most eclectic car show/adventure rally for rad people without egos. I won't do another background recap as Off-Road Racer did

HooptieX.com for schedule and details.