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We've all seen those mega-cheap half-done project cars for sale on the internet, tempting us with the supposed glory that will come... if you just whack an engine back in the car, finish the paint job and fit some trim. The truth is, buying someone else's unfinished project car is a more difficult task than herding goats over a high-wire while teaching a monkey how to do a drum solo. As Marty and MOOG found out this week when they bought their new project car (WATCH THE NEW EP HERE) the budget path to automotive radness is often not the bargain cakewalk...

"Crikey!" is normally the first words out of someone who has driven the 6.2km-long Mount Panorama road circuit at race speed. If you've SEEN THE LATEST EPISODE you'll have seen MOOG's eyes go dinner plate-wide as he hot-laps his Lotus Exige S240 around the famously terrifying circuit. So why does it make so much poo come out of grown-up humans? One serious factor is the elevation: like at Spa, Nurburgring or Laguna Seca, Bathurst is a mixed bag of massive elevation changes as racers literally climb and then fall down the side of a seriously steep bit of western NSW....

With their shared love of rare, niche nuggets built in far away lands, Marty and MOOG have both had the not-small job of tracking down spare parts and mad mods to suit their cars. This is why we haven't seen the Nissan March Super-Turbo until TODAY'S MAD NEW EPISODE as the lads finally get to crack open some cool new purchases. Sometimes the time it takes to find and ship parts means delays in bringing videos out as parts have to be specially ordered, or shipped tens of thousands of kilometres to get to the land of Kangaroos and backwards-flushing...

In the latest episode (see it HERE) of Mighty Car Mods we see MOOG's VW RS3 run on the dyno and some people will be wondering if a stock RS3 is rated by Audi at 394hp (294kW), why did MOOG's car make LESS than that after all those mad Revo mods?  Actually, kids, it didn't. *SPOILER ALERT* DON'T READ ANY FURTHER ON IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE VIDEO AND WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH POWER MOOG MADE When manufacturers display how much power a car produces, they are claiming this as measured at the crankshaft, not at the wheels or hubs like...

As soon as MCM's latest episode hit the Tubes of You a wailing and gnashing of keyboards was heard across the world as some aggrieved viewers demanded Marty and MOOG "go back to working on nuggets". But, what is considered a nugget in 2021? We live in strange times, when the common 1990s Japanese performance cars many of us grew up buying and selling for a pittance are now sought-after classics. Values for iconic cars like Nissan's R32-R34 Skyline GT-R, Toyota's JZA80 Supra, and even Honda's DC2 Integra Type R have surpassed many traditional "classic cars" like Chevy Camaros, Minis, and even old...