Goblin Works Garage on Quest

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Cledus Snow

2,092 posts

189 months

Monday 12th February 2018
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And some Austin Metros.

But... why do the experts on this TV programme use centimetres when every other human being that knows anything about cars use inches? Maybe it’s the rest of us that are wrong.

White Supra 1V

1 posts

98 months

Thursday 15th February 2018
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Who are these people on Goblin Works Garage , There full of sound bites and quotes .Do they never get dirty hands ? . Someone else must do all their work and the do the acting badly . Cant watch it

e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

174 months

Thursday 15th February 2018
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Saw a minute or so while flicking channels. Sad to see they're going to ruin the 2CV van next.

Bell ends.

suffolk009

5,441 posts

166 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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That beautiful 2CV. Until they got it....

aeropilot

34,682 posts

228 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Nothing else on so attempted to watch it last night.....

Nodded off at some point.....probably not long after he was in that 'Z' barn and bought the ducktail.....

Unfortunately I woke up before the end........ just as they pulled the cover of the paint/body kit abomination..........


Another car painfully ruined by this bunch of clowns.......(or rather the other people they pay to do the work, as I seriously doubt they do any of it)


doogalman

705 posts

246 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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What a mess the car looked with that front dam and why gulf colours?
Cringed at the gtr ride and the test session at Rockingham. All strutting about in race overall, no helmets. Interesting that she had her harnesses on in a conventional way if a bit slack, but the bloke driving had his harnesses looped over the top of the head rest, wtf was that about?

anonymous-user

55 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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doogalman said:
What a mess the car looked with that front dam and why gulf colours?
Cringed at the gtr ride and the test session at Rockingham. All strutting about in race overall, no helmets. Interesting that she had her harnesses on in a conventional way if a bit slack, but the bloke driving had his harnesses looped over the top of the head rest, wtf was that about?
It looked like the seats didn't have proper cut outs for harnesses, so they were just slung over the top or round the sides. What was going on with the exhaust hanging down underneath too ?

e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

174 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Just lazy TV programming from Quest. I note they're also running that terrible ''Classic Car Rescue'' series again, with Bernie and another American/Canadian in an effort to broaden its appeal. Utter dross full of faux drama and self imposed deadlines.

Like most of us here I imagine, I'll watch most car related TV content in the hope of seeing something of interest. The dirge churned out by Quest (and Dave to some extent) is just insulting. It's as if they think non car people just wouldn't understand anything remotely technical and having those 3 clowns (Goblin) prancing about in race overalls, whilst taking the credit for work done by other people is almost laughable. If only the program makers put in as much effort as they do in deleting negative social media comments, in an effort to cultivate some kind of following for their ''creations''.

Think rubbish TV, then think even more rubbish.

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

164 months

Saturday 17th February 2018
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I forgot to watch this episode but it's repeated this afternoon.

I saw the Z at the NEC in November and wasn't particularly impressed then either.

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

164 months

Saturday 17th February 2018
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Watched the repeat,so much fail.

First line in the show,weird beard says it's a supercar ,then says performance is "brutal".

It was a good sports coupe but neither of the above are accurate.

Spotted the seat belt thing mentioned,both of them might as well had not bothered using belts at all.

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 18th February 2018
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suffolk009 said:
That beautiful 2CV. Until they got it....
Just watched a repeat, and anyone else spot the fact the "banded" wheels clearly were too wide to fit on the back of the 2cv? Driving round with wide ones on the front and std narrow ones on the back massive fail!

Cupramax

10,482 posts

253 months

Sunday 18th February 2018
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Me too sat here thinking those wheels aren't going on the back hehe and hey presto, wide on the front, standard on the back smash

Cupramax

10,482 posts

253 months

Sunday 18th February 2018
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Uh, throttle bodies have vanished?

suffolk009

5,441 posts

166 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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Max_Torque said:
suffolk009 said:
That beautiful 2CV. Until they got it....
Just watched a repeat, and anyone else spot the fact the "banded" wheels clearly were too wide to fit on the back of the 2cv? Driving round with wide ones on the front and std narrow ones on the back massive fail!
It's so they can get the power down!

What a joke. What an inexcusably poor TV show.

e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

174 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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I'm banned from their FaceBook page.

I never once wrote anything aggressive or obscene but I did point out a few things, such as the Capri not being built by them, the unsafe use of harness seat belts and the fact their banded steels didn't fit, despite all of their mechanical / engineering skills. I also asked why they felt the need to dumb down anything that was remotely technical?

Final question was what detergent do they use to keep their overalls to clean?


willy wombat

919 posts

149 months

Monday 19th February 2018
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I've not watched this but now I feel I must!

TheAngryDog

12,409 posts

210 months

Friday 8th June 2018
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Just watching the 280z episode. Utter dog st. They know nothing. Reckon the skyline was the successor to the 280z. Did they not know that the skyline was it's own model? And that the 300zx, 350z and 370z don't exist?

No wonder Discovery haven't picked up a second series.

e30m3Mark

16,205 posts

174 months

Friday 8th June 2018
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I had a bit of a comment thing with one of them on FaceBook where he went on about how skilled he was and how they know their work is some of the best out there. They blocked me soon after though sadly. Shame as I wanted to congratulate him on the way they used the harnesses in the 280.

bongtom

2,018 posts

84 months

Wednesday 5th September 2018
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It’s telling that no one has bothered to even comment about this dross since June, then Feb’!

“Slam Drover” plus some made up drama about some bike. It was funny watching him ride around the track though.

Utter toss. Hipster gentrification of something that’s isnt.

anonymous-user

55 months

Monday 21st January 2019
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A mate reckons he saw somewhere that there was going to be a new series of Goblin lash ups. Tell me it ain't so ?! laugh