Y’all are killing me. I’m laughing so much I can’t catch my breath. There’s no other forum that entertains so while enlightening me like this one. So in that vein I submit a history of the lowly Mecha...
My Google-Fu tells me that Mechas are an ill conceived laboratory hybrid of the Gremlin (genus Hollywoodus ) and the Nauga (genus Furniturus) created by expat Nazis in Argentina in the mid 50s.
Gremlins were first described in 1954 when Nash-Kelvinator and the the Hudson Motor Car company merged to become American Motors Corporation. They were thought to be eradicated as pests after inspiring the Gremlin automobile (also ill conceived) but documents recovered from the demise of AMC show a missing Jeep CJ-7 was abandoned in Hollywood with traces of Gremlin scat in the mid 80s. It is alleged by the tinfoil hat crowd that Steven Spielberg still keeps a breeding colony of them but none have been seen in the wild since their 1984 movie.
Naugas were first described in 1936 by B.A. Hunter of the American Rubber Company (now Uniroyal). They are thought to be native to Sumatra since the domestic species was first captured at rubber plantations there. Uniroyal chemists soon discovered their hides were rich in PVC and began harvesting them to make Naugahyde furniture. Due to their small size that requires hundreds for just one sofa, and the Naugahyde craze of the 70s attributed to Ricardo Montalban’ calling them “like fine Corinthian leather”, they were hunted to near extinction. Currently they are only know to exist on Uniroyal’s farms in England. As a side note, their gigantic marine cousins have been hunted to complete extinction by Japanese whalers due to the once lucrative trade in their oil that was high in PVC used to make plastic DWV pipe and their demise has been blamed on rising PVC pipe costs.
As can well be imagined by the above, Mechas have inherited a nasty temper and fondness for automobiles from the Gremlin side and a hatred for humans from the Nauga side. As a result they are known to infest and reek havoc on any automobile they come across.
The Nauga:
The Gremlin
The Mecha has never been photographed but one Honda Clarity owner claimed to have seen one in 2019.
