Reader, welcome to Foolish Week. That is the time between the Hanukkah-Christmas vacation interval and the starting of the New 12 monthswhen nothing actually occurs and even fewer issues actually matter. The world will not meaningfully begin again up till January 5, 2026, which suggests it is time so that you can slack off at work and spend your time studying Jalopnik and watching automobile movies. It is like hibernation, solely with vehicles. You even receives a commission for it, as long as you possibly can decrease the window quick sufficient when your boss walks by.
It is also, conveniently, the time of 12 months when the Mighty Automobile Mods duo at all times put out a few of their greatest work. This 12 months’s no totally different, with Marty and Moog taking one more a visit to Japan to choose up a automobile bought sight-unseen at public sale. This time, although, it isn’t the same old kei fare. As an alternative, it is one thing that captures numerous the MCM hits: A Honda Metropolis Turbo IIfull with Motocompo.
C’mon, you are not working anyway
The Metropolis Turbo II is a Marty buy, which just about instantly leaves Moog aghast at how mad a deal his good friend bought. The pair spent someplace round $17,000 on the automobile itself, plus one thing like $3,000 on the accompanying Motocompo (Marty and Moog are imprecise concerning the costs on digital camera), solely to comprehend the Metropolis was working on three cylinders and making no enhance. For a four-cylinder, turbocharged automobile, that is what a mechanical would name “not supreme.”
Nonetheless, it makes for good footage. Shopping for a damaged automobile, fixing it up, and tooling round Japan is traditional Mighty Automobile Mods — the pair could have a bit additional cash to throw round now, however they’re nonetheless Marty and Moog beneath all of it. Which might you relatively do on this chilly December day: Mindlessly scroll by the identical Excel spreadsheet, pretending such as you’re getting something productive completed in any respect, or watch two guys repair up a Metropolis Turbo II in Japan when you hover your finger over the Reduce button?
