Goblin Works Garage on Quest

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skeeterm5

3,361 posts

189 months

Sunday 5th January 2020
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Contrary to the normal PH bashing, I quite like it. An easy watch and certainly better than celebrity singing bake-off in the jungle pap.

Sure their cars are not always to my taste, but it is entertaining enough and I like the fact they do some none obvious stuff, the Viva for example was pretty cool all bar a couple of things easily changed.

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anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 5th January 2020
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eccles said:
The whole show is such a blatant lie.
They said what a bargain it was to pay £3k for such a rare car, even if it was a project car, yet £3k is the normal going rate for them.
The car had obviously been prepped to look like a basket case and looked like it was in great nick to start with. The exhaust was obviously a kit from Demand engineering and I think had minimal input from the 'artisans' at Goblin works ( https://www.instagram.com/p/B66VhaWArFT/ )
And then the usual 'buyer' who doesn't mind paying the most ridiculous amount of money with no questions asked.
They had Meguiars in to sort out the paint too.


Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 6th January 10:09

eccles

13,740 posts

223 months

Sunday 5th January 2020
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Grahamdub said:
eccles said:
The whole show is such a blatant lie.
They said what a bargain it was to pay £3k for such a rare car, even if it was a project car, yet £3k is the normal going rate for them.
The car had obviously been prepped to look like a basket case and looked like it was in great nick to start with. The exhaust was obviously a kit from Demand engineering and I think had minimal input from the 'artisans' at Goblin works ( https://www.instagram.com/p/B66VhaWArFT/ )
And then the usual 'buyer' who doesn't mind paying the most ridiculous amount of money with no questions asked.
They has Meguiars in to sort out the paint too.
And then spout pap that they are designers and 'artisans' with no credit to the people doing the real work.

1602Mark

16,205 posts

174 months

Monday 6th January 2020
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One of them is now on Fifth Gear and spouts just as much nonsense on there.


Pantechnicon

1,248 posts

207 months

Tuesday 7th January 2020
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We all know that most tv is set up, but at least give us some credit, that viva was set up to look much worse than it was and I’m pretty sure their numbers didn’t add up either but I’m not going to rewatch because it was crap

Pantechnicon

1,248 posts

207 months

Tuesday 7th January 2020
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And another thing. I always assumed frenched in meant setting into a pocket not just fitting something flush those rear lights were hideous.

aeropilot

34,680 posts

228 months

Tuesday 7th January 2020
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Pantechnicon said:
And another thing. I always assumed frenched in meant setting into a pocket not just fitting something flush those rear lights were hideous.
You are correct, it does mean recessed and setting into a pocket, not flush fitted.

We aren't dealing with people that actually know anything though, its a 100% fake show with 100% fake presenters. Quite how its still being made is beyond my understanding.

droopsnoot

11,975 posts

243 months

Tuesday 7th January 2020
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Pantechnicon said:
And another thing. I always assumed frenched in meant setting into a pocket not just fitting something flush those rear lights were hideous.
They were terrible. I don't know why he had to heat the metal to bend it around the light frames as it's a very gentle bend.

If they spent £7,000 on that (plus the £3k purchase price that isn't quite right) I'd be amazed. Set of wheels and tyres, a steering wheel, fancy exhaust, waste of time rear light modifications (which surely aren't legal, with no reflector), a sheet of yellow tint material with some bits left over for the headlamps and a box of overpriced stuff to clean the car without using water. Oh, and a front spoiler, or "splitter" as they seemed to call it.

The one saving grace is that all the stuff they put on it will easily come off again, when it finally sells for a normal price to someone who exists.

zeb

3,204 posts

219 months

Tuesday 7th January 2020
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The rust 'effect' on the bodywork had clearly been sprayed on to make the car look worse than it actually was. Its now beyond the 'its so bad its good' league.....

V8covin

7,332 posts

194 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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Tonight they build an electric vehicle.
More likely they get a proper company to build an electric vehicle and they add some stickers smile

1602Mark

16,205 posts

174 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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Mobility scooter with spotlights and whitewall tyres?

Blib

44,206 posts

198 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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V8covin said:
Tonight they build an electric vehicle.
More likely they get a proper company to build an electric vehicle and they add some stickers smile
Well, Electric Classic Cars do the actual conversion. So, you may well be right! (I've not heard of Goblin's tv show before today).

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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Same archive 500 clips as on Salvage Hunters last night !

Moulder

1,466 posts

213 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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Oh no....

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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Moulder said:
Oh no....
It was so nice to start with too

waynecyclist

8,844 posts

115 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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Am I dreaming or are the arch extensions wider now then the first ones shown

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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waynecyclist said:
Am I dreaming or are the arch extensions wider now then the first ones shown
They will need even bigger spacers laugh

Cledus Snow

2,092 posts

189 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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Why are they still pretending to be a business?

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 9th January 2020
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£44k and it's still got lhd headlights and Hifly tyres laugh

bigshineybike

29 posts

57 months

Friday 10th January 2020
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I was reading this thread earlier today . quite by chance I found this russian gargae builder video. The guys are quite refreshingly genuine. the project is simple fun. Although maybe that tesla bloke was paying for everything?
https://youtu.be/kFrqIrCYOlM