**The MR2 Dilemma**

As we sat down to discuss the upcoming challenges and projects, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. The MR2, a car that had been a passion project for me for some time now, was finally taking shape. However, as I delved into its inner workings, I realized that it was going to be a lot more involved than I initially thought.

"I think I might be allergic to the Gennady group," I joked, trying to lighten the mood. "At least it's definitely coming on if I haven't been." My friend, Martin, chuckled and replied, "Yeah yeah, yeah!" It was clear that he was just as excited about the project as I was.

As we began to discuss the scope of the work, I realized that I was going to be extremely busy. "I'm gonna have to change some spark plugs," I said, trying to downplay the extent of the task. Martin shook his head and replied, "We're not going to be able to help you on this." I nodded in agreement, knowing that I had put myself under a lot of pressure.

Despite my reservations, Martin remained optimistic. "I reckon dude, I reckon you can do it," he said with a smile. "You've got enough clever people around you that you should be able to figure it out." His words were reassuring, but I couldn't shake off the feeling that I was in over my head.

As we continued to talk, Martin mentioned that he had already made some progress on his own car. "I'm at MIT," he said, referring to the car's maintenance and inspection program. "And I've got my car working," he added, proudly. I couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy.

As our conversation drew to a close, Martin mentioned that there were going to be some challenges ahead. "We want you to win," he said, referring to the upcoming competitions. "Reckon you can do it?" he asked, his eyes shining with confidence. I nodded, knowing that I had my work cut out for me.

But just as things were starting to settle down, Martin dropped a bombshell. "Winner gets two hundred thousand rupiah," he announced, his voice dripping with excitement. The prize was substantial, and the thought of winning it sent shivers down my spine.

As we parted ways, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the opportunity to work on the MR2 project. It had been a wild ride so far, and I knew that there were still many challenges ahead. But with Martin's support and encouragement, I felt ready to take on whatever came next.

**The Ultimate Prize**

As we sat down to discuss the finer points of the competition, Martin mentioned that the ultimate prize was within our grasp. "Winner gets two hundred thousand rupiah," he repeated, his voice filled with excitement. The thought of winning such a substantial prize was almost too much to bear.

But there was one catch - the winner would have to ride in their car as passenger for the shame of it. Martin's words were laced with humor, but I couldn't help but feel a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect.

Despite the slight setback, we remained optimistic about our chances. "We'll go out and get some mad food," Martin said, his eyes shining with excitement. And when they won, we would cruise down the street in style, the winner's car proudly on display.

As we parted ways, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the adventure that lay ahead. With Martin by my side, I knew that we could conquer anything - even if it meant riding around as passengers in our own cars.

**A Conversation with Marty**

As we sat down to discuss the finer points of the competition, Martin mentioned that he had already made some progress on his own car. "I'm at MIT," he said, referring to the car's maintenance and inspection program. "And I've got my car working," he added, proudly.

I couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy as I listened to him talk about his car. It was clear that he had put in a lot of hard work, and I knew that I had my own car to fix.

But despite the fact that we were both working on our respective cars, Martin remained optimistic about our chances. "Reckon you can do it?" he asked, his eyes shining with confidence. I nodded, knowing that I had my work cut out for me.

As our conversation drew to a close, Martin mentioned that there were going to be some challenges ahead. "We want you to win," he said, referring to the upcoming competitions. And when we did, we would celebrate in style - with food, drink, and maybe even a little bit of drift handling.

I couldn't help but feel excited at the prospect of competing against Martin. It was clear that we were both up for the challenge, and I knew that it was going to be an adventure unlike any other.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennot too long ago you would have seen my incredible black Toyota the mr2 the engines behind you in this series we're working on cars where the engines back there we've got a budget to stick to I bought an mr2 that works perfectly it drives it's a bit rough but it's a good car my good friends had this car for quite a while he's been threatening to use it for quite a while he hasn't hear that that's the sound of the thing not running don't think it ever has probably and it's pretty awesome and extremely weird what is it tell us everything hi everyone tell us everything let me introduce to you the vehicle that is gonna completely dominate mr. Pooh you actually call mr. Pooh the whole time welcome to another episode of mighty car mods and welcome to the most incredible vehicle we've ever had on this show is it the moon buggy no it's a Moog buggy everybody this is a 1975 Volkswagen super bug so what you're saying is this an old badge car yes that's right an old badge yes that's right ma'am it is built off a Volkswagen but as you can see heavily modified this is a unlike your car this is an actual performance vehicle that has been built specifically to win at life and at carring and probably one of the most unique cars we've ever had on the show now you might be wondering where do you find such a car in a car park that's where I found it it had a cover over the top you should never touch someone's car cover but if it's half pulled back you can have a little peek inside and it turns out that this was parked in the carpark of an advertising agency in Sydney City and it had been built for a campaign for deodorant that I understand since got canned God can hey hey I don't know what happened but it was basically built for and ad it was now being stored there I went upstairs to say g'day to them and the lady who was working there she was like I'd really love the parking spot back that thing's been sitting there for years we want to get rid of it so I offered them fine will they or not what happens after you paid him too much what it's a Volkswagen of course you paid - no I didn't pay them too much there was some paperwork still so I got a little bit of information about the car and I paid have a guess what I paid people what do you have a good look have a good look what do you think it's worth look at the pedal box down here like look at the quality of the workmanship all right what is it what's it worth and how much did it cost to build Iona two very different things this would have been expensive to build you can tell straight away right Martin six figures to build over $100,000 yeah well I can including late allegedly yeah allegedly yeah yeah including labor I can see how that could happen because it the more you look the more you realize how much custom stuffs going on right here a serious amount of engineering in fabric Volkswagen Beetle this is a Volkswagen Beetle it was some part of it I bought this for $8,000 funnily enough the same as what you paid for your mr2 yeah but that was I've had this car for years and years hi mum thank you for storing it in your garage and I'm so sorry it was there for so long but thank you very much for storing it and so here it is so it's a 1975 superbug completely custom built back here is what looks like it's a 1.6 litre engine but we think might be a 2.1 litre it doesn't work so I don't know it obviously did work maybe a day because that's actually you know it drove around yeah it has not been started or driven for years and years and years six years a very very long time does it work don't know if it sees don't know just looking at it you've got fuel cell custom rollcage oil cooler aftermarket car B's carbon fibre covers like or whatever with that I don't know what that is looks like having fun either way full breather system fuel pressure regulators like like this is not but this is a fairly serious build it's serious and here's the thing you might be looking at a guy oh that's a kind of cool thing you could drive around your farm this here is engineered for the road it's actually been fully trained so it's straight legal so as far as I know this is the only custom-built June buggy in the country or the state that has actually been engineered to drive on the street so it's a pretty serious piece of equipment as you can see it's amazing looking isn't it like just visually it's the amount of effort that's gone into the original design and fabrication is just amazing so the floor pen and the engine mount system is kind of no not even the engine mount system because that's all made with bars and please well that's all made out of this yeah but this floor plan bit is the actual car plus the steering column I'm assuming but even this has about so single around it as well so I'm not quite sure and there's just this random stuff here we don't know Martin pretty incredible and we don't know you know there's one mirror on this side there's no mirror on the other side the seats look like actual subsets like that's not like an eBay number no seriously that's a villa they're like an Australian company what are you gonna do with this thing I'm just gonna make it work just fix it just like actually make it work now it used to have up here it used to have a big satellite dish then kind of hung out the top for its moon buggy eNOS I don't actually know what happened to that I don't know if the lights work I don't know if the engine sees so it could be a very short series if it doesn't work yeah but once you and I start working on it we can start investigating and seeing what's going on I have so much work to do on my mr2 I might I might just be I might just be too busy to help you man like I'm always happy to help you bye oh it's gonna take up heaps of my time in I'm really busy like getting me my to working I might just be busy when you're working on it Martin come down with your mr2 cuz no one cares let's be honest now the good thing about the vault swag the good thing about I care about you - I'm just being mean because I love you Martin trailer main to keep an mr2 now the good thing about this is as you and I fix it we're gonna be able to show the people really easily because it's all exposed normally the engines are on a crane oh it's here so just sit it here we'll get it going there's no radio no this is Volkswagen this is 70s Volkswagen air called they're cool and there's like carbon fiber stuff I'm you excited about working out like just delving right into the badge like so far then you're gonna see how it works I actually think I might be allergic to fall off a Gennady group really yeah yeah I think I might be allergic to it at least it's definitely coming on if I haven't been I think now I am yes and I think I mean the mr2 is it's gonna it's just gonna take up so much of my spare time and like I don't want to promise you that I'll be available to help you work on this we're not I'm gonna really busy like I'm gonna have to change some spark plugs I might have to like change a gasket we might have to rebuild the whole engine but I'll be busy like you know fixing a seat I'm gonna be I'm gonna be I'm gonna be so busy man I I really respect you and your time and your enthusiasm and I don't want to be letting you down so I don't feel like I should promise I can help you on this if I'm gonna be really busy with my mr2 did you eat your work to do I'm at MIT menu out no I'm not out I'm working on the mr2 this is a challenge this you're not getting involved we're not gonna work on me am I to if I'm working on this we want you I reckon dude I reckon you can do it I reckon you can do it I reckon you'd know enough clever people that were you get at least get a bit of help or advice and you could get it done and I'll get my and my to done and then the mi tool chop this and we awesome that sadly that sounds like you just don't want to work on it no I don't hang out with people my teammates like they pretty regular as well and that'll take up a lot of my time going my - man he's totally changed not really all right well here's the car that Marty's not gonna work on on the show that we work on stuff together with is even there well you can help me work on me am i - no I'm not touching that thing I told you I told you before we started filming I'm not touching on that thing come on man that's fair that isn't it if you don't help me with my mid - the poo I won't help you with you bet I'll help you then I'll help you let's go let's go yeah are you busy yeah no let's go right now that's all come on you want to save awkward hang on is gonna save the mr2 clubs got any events on hang on oh yeah there's heaps of events man I'll just check the calendar yep great all right so let's call it what it is I bought a car mightier intimidated and he's not gonna help work on it now I think it's super cool now that's fine I just I'm glad you like it man it's Volkswagen and it's old because it's super we'd jump in the passenger seat for a second Martin and just let's pretend we're cool for a second yeah before you go and work on your car and I go and work on mine look at this man ah look at this we can drive down the road like this of course we can it's legal so we it's engineered for New South Wales roads you don't drift handle yes of course it's a drift handle so look at this this is you and me just going down the street now man okay this doesn't so kaboom I reckon maybe what we do Martin hmm you get your car working yep I'll get my car working fantastic when they're all done we'll do some challenges yeah after I win we'll go out and get some mad food and then we'll gone we'll go for a cruise whoever wins doesn't have to pay for their burger what if you win you get a free burger from the other person that's a good idea man oh that's a great idea tastiest sweetest burger but ah check this out I've got the ultimate the ultimate prize okay winner gets two hundred thousand rupiah whoa and whoa has to ride passenger in the winner's car for the shame of it to go get the burger oh yes so if you win I'll ride in mr. poof I win all right you're right in the veg yeah man done fun Martin it's been very enjoyable having a chat with you gonna go fix my Toyota all right won't need much fixing cuz it's already so good well I'm as good as the Toyota can be I might just get to work right now Martin all right thanks everyone we hope you enjoyed the new announcement of these things and there's gonna be new videos hittin your eyeballs ear balls are very shortly thank you very much and one small step for vege kindnot too long ago you would have seen my incredible black Toyota the mr2 the engines behind you in this series we're working on cars where the engines back there we've got a budget to stick to I bought an mr2 that works perfectly it drives it's a bit rough but it's a good car my good friends had this car for quite a while he's been threatening to use it for quite a while he hasn't hear that that's the sound of the thing not running don't think it ever has probably and it's pretty awesome and extremely weird what is it tell us everything hi everyone tell us everything let me introduce to you the vehicle that is gonna completely dominate mr. Pooh you actually call mr. Pooh the whole time welcome to another episode of mighty car mods and welcome to the most incredible vehicle we've ever had on this show is it the moon buggy no it's a Moog buggy everybody this is a 1975 Volkswagen super bug so what you're saying is this an old badge car yes that's right an old badge yes that's right ma'am it is built off a Volkswagen but as you can see heavily modified this is a unlike your car this is an actual performance vehicle that has been built specifically to win at life and at carring and probably one of the most unique cars we've ever had on the show now you might be wondering where do you find such a car in a car park that's where I found it it had a cover over the top you should never touch someone's car cover but if it's half pulled back you can have a little peek inside and it turns out that this was parked in the carpark of an advertising agency in Sydney City and it had been built for a campaign for deodorant that I understand since got canned God can hey hey I don't know what happened but it was basically built for and ad it was now being stored there I went upstairs to say g'day to them and the lady who was working there she was like I'd really love the parking spot back that thing's been sitting there for years we want to get rid of it so I offered them fine will they or not what happens after you paid him too much what it's a Volkswagen of course you paid - no I didn't pay them too much there was some paperwork still so I got a little bit of information about the car and I paid have a guess what I paid people what do you have a good look have a good look what do you think it's worth look at the pedal box down here like look at the quality of the workmanship all right what is it what's it worth and how much did it cost to build Iona two very different things this would have been expensive to build you can tell straight away right Martin six figures to build over $100,000 yeah well I can including late allegedly yeah allegedly yeah yeah including labor I can see how that could happen because it the more you look the more you realize how much custom stuffs going on right here a serious amount of engineering in fabric Volkswagen Beetle this is a Volkswagen Beetle it was some part of it I bought this for $8,000 funnily enough the same as what you paid for your mr2 yeah but that was I've had this car for years and years hi mum thank you for storing it in your garage and I'm so sorry it was there for so long but thank you very much for storing it and so here it is so it's a 1975 superbug completely custom built back here is what looks like it's a 1.6 litre engine but we think might be a 2.1 litre it doesn't work so I don't know it obviously did work maybe a day because that's actually you know it drove around yeah it has not been started or driven for years and years and years six years a very very long time does it work don't know if it sees don't know just looking at it you've got fuel cell custom rollcage oil cooler aftermarket car B's carbon fibre covers like or whatever with that I don't know what that is looks like having fun either way full breather system fuel pressure regulators like like this is not but this is a fairly serious build it's serious and here's the thing you might be looking at a guy oh that's a kind of cool thing you could drive around your farm this here is engineered for the road it's actually been fully trained so it's straight legal so as far as I know this is the only custom-built June buggy in the country or the state that has actually been engineered to drive on the street so it's a pretty serious piece of equipment as you can see it's amazing looking isn't it like just visually it's the amount of effort that's gone into the original design and fabrication is just amazing so the floor pen and the engine mount system is kind of no not even the engine mount system because that's all made with bars and please well that's all made out of this yeah but this floor plan bit is the actual car plus the steering column I'm assuming but even this has about so single around it as well so I'm not quite sure and there's just this random stuff here we don't know Martin pretty incredible and we don't know you know there's one mirror on this side there's no mirror on the other side the seats look like actual subsets like that's not like an eBay number no seriously that's a villa they're like an Australian company what are you gonna do with this thing I'm just gonna make it work just fix it just like actually make it work now it used to have up here it used to have a big satellite dish then kind of hung out the top for its moon buggy eNOS I don't actually know what happened to that I don't know if the lights work I don't know if the engine sees so it could be a very short series if it doesn't work yeah but once you and I start working on it we can start investigating and seeing what's going on I have so much work to do on my mr2 I might I might just be I might just be too busy to help you man like I'm always happy to help you bye oh it's gonna take up heaps of my time in I'm really busy like getting me my to working I might just be busy when you're working on it Martin come down with your mr2 cuz no one cares let's be honest now the good thing about the vault swag the good thing about I care about you - I'm just being mean because I love you Martin trailer main to keep an mr2 now the good thing about this is as you and I fix it we're gonna be able to show the people really easily because it's all exposed normally the engines are on a crane oh it's here so just sit it here we'll get it going there's no radio no this is Volkswagen this is 70s Volkswagen air called they're cool and there's like carbon fiber stuff I'm you excited about working out like just delving right into the badge like so far then you're gonna see how it works I actually think I might be allergic to fall off a Gennady group really yeah yeah I think I might be allergic to it at least it's definitely coming on if I haven't been I think now I am yes and I think I mean the mr2 is it's gonna it's just gonna take up so much of my spare time and like I don't want to promise you that I'll be available to help you work on this we're not I'm gonna really busy like I'm gonna have to change some spark plugs I might have to like change a gasket we might have to rebuild the whole engine but I'll be busy like you know fixing a seat I'm gonna be I'm gonna be I'm gonna be so busy man I I really respect you and your time and your enthusiasm and I don't want to be letting you down so I don't feel like I should promise I can help you on this if I'm gonna be really busy with my mr2 did you eat your work to do I'm at MIT menu out no I'm not out I'm working on the mr2 this is a challenge this you're not getting involved we're not gonna work on me am I to if I'm working on this we want you I reckon dude I reckon you can do it I reckon you can do it I reckon you'd know enough clever people that were you get at least get a bit of help or advice and you could get it done and I'll get my and my to done and then the mi tool chop this and we awesome that sadly that sounds like you just don't want to work on it no I don't hang out with people my teammates like they pretty regular as well and that'll take up a lot of my time going my - man he's totally changed not really all right well here's the car that Marty's not gonna work on on the show that we work on stuff together with is even there well you can help me work on me am i - no I'm not touching that thing I told you I told you before we started filming I'm not touching on that thing come on man that's fair that isn't it if you don't help me with my mid - the poo I won't help you with you bet I'll help you then I'll help you let's go let's go yeah are you busy yeah no let's go right now that's all come on you want to save awkward hang on is gonna save the mr2 clubs got any events on hang on oh yeah there's heaps of events man I'll just check the calendar yep great all right so let's call it what it is I bought a car mightier intimidated and he's not gonna help work on it now I think it's super cool now that's fine I just I'm glad you like it man it's Volkswagen and it's old because it's super we'd jump in the passenger seat for a second Martin and just let's pretend we're cool for a second yeah before you go and work on your car and I go and work on mine look at this man ah look at this we can drive down the road like this of course we can it's legal so we it's engineered for New South Wales roads you don't drift handle yes of course it's a drift handle so look at this this is you and me just going down the street now man okay this doesn't so kaboom I reckon maybe what we do Martin hmm you get your car working yep I'll get my car working fantastic when they're all done we'll do some challenges yeah after I win we'll go out and get some mad food and then we'll gone we'll go for a cruise whoever wins doesn't have to pay for their burger what if you win you get a free burger from the other person that's a good idea man oh that's a great idea tastiest sweetest burger but ah check this out I've got the ultimate the ultimate prize okay winner gets two hundred thousand rupiah whoa and whoa has to ride passenger in the winner's car for the shame of it to go get the burger oh yes so if you win I'll ride in mr. poof I win all right you're right in the veg yeah man done fun Martin it's been very enjoyable having a chat with you gonna go fix my Toyota all right won't need much fixing cuz it's already so good well I'm as good as the Toyota can be I might just get to work right now Martin all right thanks everyone we hope you enjoyed the new announcement of these things and there's gonna be new videos hittin your eyeballs ear balls are very shortly thank you very much and one small step for vege kind\n"