JUST ABOUT ANY AND ALL DISNEY PIXAR CARS CRONIES CAN TESTIFY, MATER IS QUITE A CHARACTER.
AS A "MATER" OF FACT, HE'S BEEN QUITE A FEW CHARACTERS (IF YOU BELIEVE HIS "YARN"). YEAH, FROM 2008 TO 2012, THERE WERE "FABLES" PUT OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE ABOUT MATER GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND HIS TYPICAL TOW TRUCK EXPERIENCES. FLAT TIRES, STALLED ENGINES AND YOUR EVERY-DAY BREAKDOWNS WERE NOTHING COMPARED TO HIS OTHER EXPLOITS. TO HEAR HIM TELL IT, HE'S BEEN A ROCK STAR, A WRESTLER, A DAREDEVIL STUNT ARTIST AND WHILE TELLING HIS "TALL TALES", HE'S EVEN BEEN TO THE MOON. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? TO WONDER, HAS ANYBODY EVER SEEN HIM KEEP HIS FINGERS CROSSED BEHIND HIS TAILGATE WHEN HE'S DESCRIBING HIS "ADVENTURES"? (TO HEAR HIM TELL IT), MATER IS SO EXCITING, COURAGEOUS, HEROIC, DARING, BRAVE, AND CAN DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING.
DO WE SHAKE HIM... AND WAKE HIM UP? NAAAAAAAAH, ALTHOUGH UNBELIEVABLE, MATER'S KINDA ENTERTAINING AND FUNNY, JUST LET HIM "SPIN HIS YARN".
NOW THIS SAGA, YOU'LL NEED TO SEE FOR YOURSELF, IF ONLY WITH ONE EYE. THE DARING TOW TRUCK GOES UNDERCOVER IN SOME UNFRIENDLY PARKING SPACES, YA KNOW, SOME DARK PLACES, WHILE WORKING ON A "CAR-NAP". LOOKING FOR A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS, THE "DICK", DISCOVERS A COUNTERFEIT TIRE CAPER. MATER TAKES THE CASE FOR HIS OLD "FLAME", TIA WHO HIRES "MPI" TO FIND HER SISTER, MIA. AFTER DOING SOME INVESTIGATION AND GETTING LEADS, MATER LOSES ONE EYE, AS HE ROLLS UP ON SOME CROOKED, CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. HE IS ABOUT TO BUST THE CASE WIDE OPEN WHEN LIEUTENANT MCQUEEN ARRIVES AND FLATTENS THE TIRES ON "BIG D's" DASTERDLY DEEDS. "MIA" GETS RESCUED AND SO THANKFUL, TIA'S ENGINE "WARMS UP", AND WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE TO "KICK TIRES" AND MAYBE DINE WITH MATER AGAIN. MPI HAS "BEEN DOWN THAT ROAD BEFORE" AND AS FAR AS HE'S CONCERNED, THE FREE HOOKUPs FOR HER, ARE A THING OF THE PAST...
...IT'S "MATER PRIVATE EYE", SOLVING CASES, GOING PLACES, ON THE FLY...