Series synopsis
Mighty Car Mods is an Australian drama television series that premiered on YouTube on January 9, 2008. It stars Blair Joscelyne and Martin Mulholland.
Mighty Car Mods is an independent automotive series created by a couple of friends, Marty and Moog who started filming videos on Martys mum's driveway in 2007. They've come a long way since then but they are still on the driveway with an unwavering focus of showing viewers great car projects that they can do themselves at home.
Premise
Mighty Car Mods is an independent automotive series created by a couple of friends, Marty and Moog who started filming videos on Martys mum's driveway in 2007. They've come a long way since then but they are still on the driveway with an unwavering focus of showing viewers great car projects that they can do themselves at home.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Blair Joscelyne as Moog
- Martin Mulholland as Marty
Episodes
This series spans 11 seasons with 167 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 9 | June 30, 2008 | March 18, 2014 |
| Season 1 | 21 | January 9, 2008 | July 12, 2009 |
| Season 2 | 15 | October 29, 2009 | December 14, 2010 |
| Season 3 | 20 | January 30, 2011 | January 16, 2012 |
| Season 4 | 21 | January 29, 2012 | December 12, 2012 |
| Season 5 | 26 | January 28, 2013 | December 18, 2013 |
| Season 6 | 32 | February 26, 2014 | February 20, 2015 |
| Season 7 | 14 | April 1, 2015 | December 31, 2015 |
| Season 8 | 8 | February 27, 2016 | October 27, 2016 |
| Season 9 | 1 | February 3, 2017 | February 3, 2017 |
| Season 10 | 0 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Drift Special The guys from ProjectD.com.au invite Mighty Car Mods out to their drift practise session at Oran Park. Stay tuned as we're looking forward to filming some more hot drift action with these guys for our 'How To Drift' special coming soon! |
June 30, 2008 |
| 2 |
Hong Kong Special Mighty Mods receive a request from a viewer to shoot a race in an exotic overseas location. But just what can they do with a $0 budget? Watch and find out. |
February 18, 2009 |
| 3 |
Turbos and Temples The boys from Mighty Car Mods take a road trip around Hokkaido in Japan in a 660cc Kei Car for their first feature length film. |
February 24, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
How to Pimp your Ride for under $500 In this episode the team from Mighty Car Mods show you just how easy it is to turn your own everyday car into a sleek, sporty headturner. Working on a Daihatsu Cuore, this episode they are racing against the clock with only 8 hours and limited funds. We had some help along the way which kept our costs down and we didn't have to pay retail for any of the goods - Bonus! |
January 9, 2008 |
| 2 |
DIY Car Security Killswitch In this episode the team from Mighty Car Mods show some basic car security ideas. The last thing you want is a thief driving off with your mighty ride, we show you a simple, and inexpensive way to help stop that happening... |
January 28, 2008 |
| 3 |
How to Roll your Guards DIY After fitting aftermarket wheels and tyres, you can get problems with wider tyres rubbing on the guards so in this episode we address that problem... |
February 3, 2008 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
How to Buy a Japanese Car In this feature length premiere of Mighty Car Mods Season 2 the boys head to the land of the rising sun to check out the car auctions... |
October 29, 2009 |
| 2 |
Make your Car Faster for Free This episode the boys from Mighty Car Mods show you how to get better performance and better economy by reducing unnecessary weight from your car. |
November 24, 2009 |
| 3 |
Blow Off Valves Mythbusted Will a blow off valve make your car faster? Can you install one on a non-turbo car? How do they work? All these questions answered and a whole lot more thanks to the Marty and Moog from Mighty Car Mods. |
December 8, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Show Car Build: Buying In part one of a three part series, Mighty Car Mods show you how they built their budget show car - made on a suburban driveway then entered in to the Just Car Insurance Autosalon Final battle. |
January 30, 2011 |
| 2 |
Show Car Build: Fixing In the finale of this three part series, the team from MCM has to pull it all together to have the car finished in time for Sydney Autosalon. Parts arrive from Japan, the interior is done and the car is started for the very first time. |
March 11, 2011 |
| 3 |
Show Car Build: Modding In this episode of Mighty Car Mods the boys strip down the car ready for paint. They head off to a very special shop to buy some wheels and the car ends up in paint booth. |
February 10, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Buying Parts from Japan Marty and Moog head to Japan to buy a new project car, but they can't get it home without "modifying" it first... |
January 29, 2012 |
| 2 |
How to Install a Start Button In this episode the boys bow under the pressure of their email inbox to show you how to install an aftermarket start button in your car. !! YES. We DO own hole saws. Thank you for asking !! |
February 14, 2012 |
| 3 |
Make your Slow Car Fast Marty buys a Daihatsu as a runabout, only to discover it's seedy past in a cloud of smoke and coolant. The boys then buy two more cars and with the help of some MCM regulars they get the best bits from each and cram them into one, to make it bigger, better and mightier than ever before... |
February 22, 2012 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Drift Car Build: Part 1 Season 5 kicks off with the boys building a drift car around a budget Nissan 180SX that Moog bought Marty in 2012. In this first part of a multi-part premiere, Marty and Moog try and find out whats wrong with the car so they can prepare it for drift mods, and Marty drops a bombshell about his Subaru ownership... |
January 28, 2013 |
| 2 |
180SX Coilover Suspension The boys continue working on the 180SX, dedicating this episode to installing Coilovers and then getting them setup and aligned ready to go drifting. |
February 5, 2013 |
| 3 |
Drift Car Build: Part 2 The build of Marty's Drift 180SX continues, this time the boys focus on making the car reliable and add a few drift mods along the way... |
February 13, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Kei to the City In this feature length season premiere of Mighty Car Mods, Marty and Moog are back doing what they do best - modifying a car on a budget in preparation for a special event. |
February 26, 2014 |
| 2 |
How to Install Bonnet Struts This is a super easy, quick and cheap way of making your car madder. |
March 31, 2014 |
| 3 |
Preparing the Mazda for Battle The MX5 is tested, broken, tested and broken again... will it beat its arch rival the Honda S2000? Marty prepares his Mazda to find out... |
March 9, 2014 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Chasing Midnight Marty and Moog are back! In this season premiere, the boys have bought a car on the internet that's in desperate need of some mods. But they've got no time and need some JDM street cred on a budget... |
April 1, 2015 |
| 2 |
11 Second Car Build: Part 11 Gramps is BACK! After being locked in the shed over summer, gramps is back to finally look as good as he goes. |
April 9, 2015 |
| 3 |
11 Second Car Build: Part 12 In this episode we check to see how bad the damage is, and decide what to do next! |
April 10, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
$3000 Turbo Car Challenge - Marty's Car The boys embark on a budget car challenge where they each have $3000 to buy a car that is manual and turbo. It also must be a car that they've never owned before. In this episode we check out Marty's car... |
February 27, 2016 |
| 2 |
$3000 Turbo Car Challenge - Moog's Car After the reveal of Marty's new car last episode, Moog shows off his new ride... |
February 29, 2016 |
| 3 |
Ford Ranger - Review in New Zealand We head to one of the most remote parts of the world to try and survive, and review the Ford Ranger |
March 2, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | JDM Sleeper Mini | February 3, 2017 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | YouTube |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 9, 2008 |
| Last aired | February 3, 2017 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Status | Returning Series |