Geo Metros for sale on Facebook Marketplace tend to be of two different types: forgotten and neglected stock Metros, often having spent a long retirement in a backyard, or so-rational-they’re-bonkers hypermiler’s experimental vehicles with extensive and maybe ill-advised aero modifications. It’s not likely you’ll find another category of Metro, though Facebook Marketplace researchers have theorized that some likely could exist, at least hypothetically: pristine preserved cars, bought and stored away almost immediately; painstakingly restored Metros, funded as part of some sort of money laundering scheme; and the least-expected one, highly modified twin-V6-engined Metros that look like they’re designed to transform a living human into about 48 ounces of a chili-like substance. Incredibly, a member of this last category has been found.
Yes, that’s correct, at this moment there is a Geo Metro for sale in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, that has been modified to replace the original one-liter, three-cylinder engine making 55 horsepower with a pair of 3-liter V6 Mitsubishi 6G72 engines, each making about 210 hp. These were normally found in 2000-2005 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT cars, and then only one per car.
This particular Geo Metro, built by a Redditor and automotive experimenter who goes by the handle Spinalsign5357, mounts a V6 at each end, front and rear, transversely, along with a lot of extensive bodywork, lightening, welding, and some complicated shift linkage work, too. It seems like an absolute Frankenstinian nightmare, something that would cause any sort of automotive deity interested in measured, rational goodness to recoil in horror.
I’m going to reproduce for you the entire seller’s description from the ad here, because I find the extensive pro and con list fascinating reading:
Seller’s description
V6 swapped Twin Engine Geo Metro . I built this car to be solid in all areas , but if you’re a perfectionist type owner, look elsewhere .
I updated the video on here to include an acceleration . That was done over 2 years ago . Pull was on street tires , pump gas , and stock internals . Engines are code 6g72 sohc v6 from Mitsubishi Eclipse gt model 2000-2005 .
Pro : The Geo’s total weight with both engines is less than the original weight of the vehicles each engine came from . So if you were to drive either the front or rear engine by itself , it would be at a 200 pound weight reduction advantage.
Pro : Unless it’s a failure that affects the vehicle as a whole , like a flat tire or failed ball joint, if one engine were to break down for any reason , you’d have the other to get home with .
Pro : Instead of relying on one engine to make decent power and worrying it may blow up or be less reliable due to wanting to make more power with forced induction or NOS. These engines are stock, so they aren’t being stressed beyond stock with weight or heat , and the two combined is like driving a single engine car with half the weight .
Pro : Stock engines, transmissions, clutches, and axles .
Pro : Has all working lights, windshield wipers, and reverse camera .
Pro : It’s fast and fun to drive with lots of torque .
Pro : Runs on Pump gas and rolling on street tires .
Pro : I’ve tested for months and driven this vehicle from 0-150mph plus at least six times, so I trust it .
Pro: Not so loud straight through exhaust with removable DB killers.
Pro : Has fwd front and rear disc brakes .
Pro: Each engine has there [sic] own fuel pump and is wired to a fuel inertia cut off switch .
Pro: It has approx 440hp , 400tq , and 12 cylinders. So light throttle in the Geo is a single engine’s car part throttle . The Geo’s part throttle is a single engine’d car’s half throttle. And so on .
Pro : It weighs 3000 lbs and it can be made to weigh much less .
Pro : A history of this build is online , so you can get behind the scenes before buying. Accelerations , build progress ect. GoogleTwin Engine Geo Metro or Youtube Spinalsign5357 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNOxCkCK33puh2VpKc0fxGw
Pro : It’s an 11 second N/A street car .
Pro : Handles pretty good. Has a short wheel base .
Pro : It’s in the top 3 fastest Geo Metro’s on earth, that I know of .
Pro : The Geo is my third twin engine build. My first was unsuccessful. Second I still drive an own .
Pro/Con : This isn’t a show car . It’s a rough around the edges , body in sheet aluminum , riveted , that I throw a thick tarp over to protect from the elements . No paint can take thick tarp abuse. This is a ” mechanic’s beater car ” that he doesn’t beat hard , does take care of , and is fun to drive .
Pro/Con : The aluminum sheet body is durable, but could use a buff and does stain if an animal urine’s on it . Stains can be buffed or brushed out . Urine stains caught early can be wiped off with bleach. I wipe it down to keep a sheen with baby oil .
Pro/Con : I removed the mass airflows for one less driveabilty issue to worry about , but that cuts mpg in half.
Con : No gas gauge , I use the trip meter to count miles and refill at certain distances , then reset .
Con : It’s awd , fwd , rwd , but not locked awd .Meaning if you full throttle floor it from a dead stop , you can break loose and spin the front and the rear independently from each other . Even more so in rain . So you have to have common sense . It has 400 tq, so I ease into throttle from a dead stop and gradually mash it faster to full throttle . Every other gear is fine to just go straight full throttle . Unless it’s raining .
Con: It could use an alignment , I took it off the road before dialing that in 100% . The wheel is straight , it goes straight , and it doesn’t wear tires crazy fast the way it is .
Con: Would be better suited for an experienced driver .
Con : You do have some braking , but you have to depress the clutch to have full braking .
Con : No windshield defroster , abs , a/c , or power steering ( though easy to turn with a 17 inch steering wheel ) I weigh 130lbs , its easy to turn .
Con : Six areas need to be checked often for tightness . Wheel lugnuts , and front motor mount bracket nuts and bolts .I have semi solid mounts , that’s why . And although these trans are open diff , it acts like a welded diff , in the having to check lug nut tightness realm .
Con : I didn’t dial in the force a brake skid to make sure go straight test . An alignment should take care of that , but the way it is nowit favors an ass right in a lock situation .
Con : I built this from scratch , it was a long build can honesly say I only cut corners in only two areas . A steering wheel adapter weld , and flushing dead flat the aluminum racing’s seat’s seat posts to frame.
Con : No emergency brake.
Con : Sold as is, no warrantee , no test drives ( unless the buyer and purchased ) , This car isn’t a ” project car ” it’s ready to drive , I just didn’t 100% everything . I test drove for months improving it along the way to where it can be let go and can pretty much have an answer for anything that could pop up or if someone would want details on .
Con/Pro: Comes as pictured in video,no tarp or wheel savers . I do have a hood , and some spare parts , but not much
There’s honestly so much in there I don’t know where to start. Maybe at the assertion it’s one of the three fastest Geo Metros on Earth? I bet the seller is right about that! I also appreciate how the most maintenance advice given is about how to deal with the bodywork if an animal urinates on it.
There are a number of videos of the car as it was being built, too, and they’re definitely worth watching:
Here’s one proving it’ll hit 150 mph, which must be mind-scramblingly terrifying:
Honestly, this is an amazing machine. Is it worth the $70,000 being asked for it? That I have no idea. I have no doubt $70,000 worth of effort and labor and a perverse sort of love went into the making of this thing, but would a rational human pay that for this car?
That’s sort of a trick question, I suppose: no rational human is even going to be looking at this thing, and that’s fine, because it’s too badass for them, anyway. This thing is raw id, rendered in aluminum and steel and rubber. It’s a deathtrap that, perversely, injects so much life into you while you’re maniacally trying to control it that you’ll be in danger of budding and spawning clones of yourself, who are born fully-formed and screaming.
This thing is all sharp edges and madness, something that was formed from the collective resistance of everyone who ever didn’t feel like wearing a helmet on a motorcycle. It’s fast and loud and a genuine affront to reason.
There are a lot of fast cars you could buy for $70,000. But there’s only one you can buy that will make people slowly back away from you as you pull up in it, only one that will convince everyone around you that you are capable of literally anything, and they should probably keep their distance.
There’s kind of a sinister energy about this thing. It’s not exactly willfully evil, but it is somehow chaotic, like there’s a core of raw entropy at the heart of this thing and it only wants to disperse it out as much as possible. It doesn’t mean harm, it’s just something it has to do, like a mushroom poofing out spores.
But they can’t look away. They may try, but it’s not happening. Try to get that feeling in your new Corvette. Spoiler alert: you can’t.
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Great write-up, Torch! I feel like this belongs in the next Deadpool movie as his “Pool-Mobile”.
Car Pool?
Have to be honest, I’m a little disappointed by the comments so far and how rational everyone seems to be. I’m 100% with Jason on this one: I love that this vehicle exists and that there is a maniac out there cranking out example after example of this fever-dream concept.
Do I want it? Nope. Do I believe that the animal(s) constantly urinating on it are channeling some kind of higher power indicating that this abomination is an affront to God himself? I’m pretty close.
All I know is that in an age where so many people seem to invest their energy into divisive actions, there’s a human who thought “what if I built a car with two engines?”, crossed the bridge of “that car should be a Geo Metro”, and then kept walking full speed past the fence of sanity while typing out “you do have some braking, but…”.
I hope someone gives this person $70,000 and more because I want to see what they come up with next. Hell, I’m close to starting a gofundme for this person to bankroll their next “what if…” idea.
I think the builder’s next logical project is an all-Mopar special PT Cruiser with twin V-10s, and I hope to see and hear that before I die, and maybe get to that point by driving it.
Ooh, that’s a good idea. He needs to build it with offset engines/differentials and have the front engine drive the rear wheels and the rear one drive the front, and then the seat is in the middle between the driveshafts. Which are exposed!
“ Is it worth the $70,000 being asked for it?”
No. The most I’d pay for this heap of shit is $700. Why? Well the seller gives reasons why:
“Con : No gas gauge , I use the trip meter to count miles and refill at certain distances , then reset .”
“Con: It could use an alignment ,”
“Con : You do have some braking , but you have to depress the clutch to have full braking .”
“Con : No windshield defroster , abs , a/c , or power steering”
“Con : No emergency brake.”
If I’m spending 70 large on a car that is not a dedicated race car built to win races for a given SCCA-sanctioned racing series, then I expect it to NOT need an alignment, have proper brakes, have a defroster and a fucking gas gauge.
This is just a stupid heap-of-shit project car that serves no purpose. As it sits, you can’t use it as a road car. And it also looks to be ill-suited for any sort of racing.
It’s basically worth scrap value.
With this project, the seller made the mistake of only asking ‘if he could’ and forgot to ask ‘if he should’.
This was made by someone who never stopped to think “should I proceed, and why should I proceed”. It is a neat novelty, but something no rational person would want to own, and certainly not for anything over 3-4 digits.
$70k? Seriously?
I’m in Florida so I saw it on FB last week. Crack pipe.
I saw this ad on facebook the other day. The best part about that video of it hitting 150 was not only did he include it in the ad, when I clicked on the listing that video immediately started auto playing. I can’t think of any better way to sell a car than that.
Looks at pictures again
Reads list again, notices 11 separate headings that are only “Con” and not a combo “Pro/Con”
Okay buddy, sure.
It’s 100% good to go. Just not 100% 100%
That seems like and oddly specific problem. Is your dog trying to tell you something?
I am assuming it is from the owner plus their friend’s and the frequent voiding of the very liquid that undoubtedly contributed to this monstrosity
No. Your neighbor is though.
I have so many conflicting thoughts.
In one sense, I applaud the madness of human spirit that refuses to yield to conventional wisdom. Indeed, I almost admire those who steadfastly pursue their own course in life and refuse to yield to anyone except their inner voice.
In another sense, conventional wisdom is the bits of useful information passed down to future generations by everyone who didn’t die by their own invention. As the seller is trying to unload this, I suspect they too have yielded to ‘conventional wisdom’.
Unlike the various terrifying contraptions that are cheap enough to allow someone of questionable means to acquire it, this is priced ambitiously enough to (presumably) sort out anyone with seriously questionable judgement. I mean, if one has $70k of mess-around money, presumably they acquired that with some sort of competency.
I just don’t want my final blaze of glory to be in a $70k Geo Metro, if I have to spend seventy thousand dollars on my own demise. Or as an unfortunate bystander sharing a public road with this….thing.
I would spend upwards of $500 to have it disassembled, the useful bits sold, and the rest crushed. The voice of my ancestors who actually survived long enough to produce offspring echoes loudly in my head.
bonkers. pure bonkers.
OBOG guess:
$6,941
“look elsewhere”
Good advice.
(Pepsi Man) Floridaaaa Maaaannn
Ah, Florida man strikes again. I love it!
Christ I love that this exists. This gives me hope for humanity.
This Kevorkian Krate is positively Metrosexual.
Holy….
I hereby renounce my nickname and bow humbly to this madman who is either not of this planet or a horse jockey from the depths of hell
How many other cars costing $70k come with two engines?
Do EV hub motors count?
Every AWD Tesla for starters. Hell, the Model S Plaid is Tri-motor.
Same deal for Rivian.
And they’ll likely be as fast or faster than the heap of shit this guy is selling… and far safer, far more efficient, cost less to buy/own and can actually be registered for on-road use.
The seller is smoking ALL THE CRACK.
Um………..yeah.
Insert the slow hand clap gif here.
Okay, put some Boggers on it, and this would be PERFECT for a Mad Max remake starring MiniKISS, the all little people KISS tribute band.
What madman is going to buy this fuel-injected suicide machine for even 10% of that price?? Funny in a terrifying way!!
Were money no object and I had a place to keep it, I most certainly would.
I’d fix the mass airflow sensor issues and then aeromod it like Dave Cloud’s “Dolphin”.
Who wants 12 cylinders that can do 200+ mph and get highway fuel economy comparable to the original?
I’d hoon the shit out of this thing!
For $70K you bet your ass I’d want a test drive.
my first thought reading that bonkers listing. i get that he’s trying to shoo away the tire kickers and lookie loos, but jesus tap dancing christ i would honestly expect a week-long class on how to operate this death trap before buying the goddamned thing
When I’m 90 and just done with life, I’m gonna buy or build something like this, go on a multiple state car chase, and just Thelma and Louise it in a blaze of glory that is sure to make the national news.
Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death
Let me die a youngman’s death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death
When I’m 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party
Or when I’m 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber’s chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides
Or when I’m 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one
Let me die a youngman’s death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
‘what a nice way to go’ death
Roger McGough
Torch, you have an apt description there. That is most definitely an assisted suicide machine. You look up deathtrap in the dictionary, there is a picture of this there. And the builder only cut corners 2 places, the seat and steering wheel. But isn’t that 2 places you most definitely shouldn’t cut corners? Big nope on this one from me, at any price.
Deathtraps are my favorite type of vehicle.
I’d rather a cut seat than cut brakes.