Just watched the episode where they butchered a new VW beetle.

There usually pretty spot on but my god that was awful.

Anyone else seen it and need eye bleach!

Truly gopping!

Picture anyone?

The only pic I could find had them sitting on it, I suppose in an attempt to hide it

Surely its impossible to make a modern Beetle look any worse than it already does?

Trying to post a picture. Sod it here is a link

https://thumbsnap.com/agXbk2v9

Thanks, I agree, that’s a bloody mess.

I think a lot of their stuff is worse than the base car they start with. This is a disaster https://www.google.com/search?q=goblin+works+cars&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4646Jg77nAhWSZlAKHd1sB18Q_AUoAXoECBAQAQ#imgrc=PL5v4k52g6GfiM

Sod it here is a link

Wtf😂

That’s horrific

I liked the Escort the most- get pretty decent base car, crash it.

They surpass themselves every week, its a programme I love to hate-watch! So some guy paid knocking on 10k for a chopped up Beetle that you cant (legally) use on the road… Riiiight.

That said it probably didnt get sold anyway as its all TV bollocks, Last weeks Supra was lent to them by the owners club for example.

The Royal Enfield was nice though.

No. awful. hate that programme.

It was ugly as f.
The bike was good tho.

Wow my original thought if typed would have resulted in a lifetime ban….😱🤮🤮🤮🤮

Edit -duplicate

I turned off when I saw the very poor quality panel work they did to make inner wings. – and they had the cheek to declare the panel finished.

Looked like a golf ball. It must be properly covered in filler to get that finished paint job . The real talent on that show is the paint shop they use.

It was ruddy awful.

But then like the slammed S2 they did by making it entirely undrivable/unsafe it’s all a show thing. -problem being is amateurs immitate their poor work.

The whole show is a crap attempt to make a UK version of the US car shows – Fast N Loud, Texas Metal, Speed Is The New Black etc etc which on the whole, are really good (to watch and the stuff a lot of them churn out is brilliant).

Unfortunately it just doesn’t work in the UK as the market is so vastly different. Nobody wants to see a grands worth of Beetle get butchered and end up looking worse. I want to see Dave Kindig dropping a huge hemi into an old Camaro or something with air ride, wheels, custom metalwork etc.

Just seen a pic of the Beetle. Dear god, what on earth is that!

I agree it’s an attempt at the American hot rod shows, they shouldn’t copy when we have the project binky bad obsession boys and the retro power guys. Either of those would make good shows, the retro power would be like a grand design type affair with a suitably Kevin mcloud type character.

Bad obsession would be a sort of funk jools Holland show with welding and brackets.

Well….. something better than what we have at least

the retro power guys.

they could bore for britain.

I’ve never seen this Goblin Works show but that picture of the beetle just made me think of some of horrific abominations that Leepu and bald bloke built. Can’t remember the name of the show.

i remember that!! Leepu made some truly awful machines, bodged together with hope and filler!

DrP

To be fair, I was apppalled until I realised it was based on a modern beetle.
Mild improvement, although making it not road legal is a bit silly.

horrific abominations that Leepu and bald bloke built.

the workmanship they showed on the beetle was comparible.

which is frustrating as i believe the guy deville is actually an accomplished chap when it comes to mechanics – but the producers make it look baad

I tried watching the one where they built a drag VW camper in the States. It was dire. The newly built engine fired then stopped with “fluid coming from everywhere” apparently and it’s “a total disaster”. Next thing they had swapped a couple of wires and it was fine. I know they were trying to make it exciting, but it made it look like they (and the company who built the engine) had no clue of what they were doing.

frustrating as i believe the guy deville is actually an accomplished chap when it comes to mechanics

I thought this too, but I’ve just watched the Cinquecento EV episode. They don’t appear to have touched the brakes or the suspension at all to consider the increased weight (of the batteries) and performance. And then as a double whammy, they’ve fitted “HiFly HF201” tyres to the car. I had to google hifly… £25 per tyre. No doubt a death trap and then the bloke who commissioned the project handed over £44,000.00 for the car. Utter muppets!
If they fit cheap Chinese parts it’s hardly going to build their “reputation in the custom car world”. Wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole.
I think deVille would be better of sticking to the 5th Gear tv stuff.

bloke who commissioned the project handed over £44,000.00 for the car. Utter muppets!

There is no “bloke who commissioned it”

Their projects appeared on eBay at end of series last time round.

Hence the thread on piston heads iirc ….showing how they weren’t even finished. -or safe.

As above, a poor attempt to mimick the other and better American produced custom car shows that are shown on Quest and DMax. I find the Deville chap quite irritating on it, although I can cope with him on 5th gear. The Canadian dude seems like he knows his stuff but the girl strikes me as a shoe in for either diversity or to try and ‘sex it up’, which in itself has an oxymoron vibe to it.

Overall, 0/10

Check the accounts – Shocker (not) that Goblin Works Garage just a name registered by Mr deVille and not really a company that makes or sells anything………..

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10057700/filing-history

They occasionally do some nice work. Lots of nice kit. New location in Manchester looks a bit grim compared to the first workshop (if the inside of the workshop is really in Manchester or just a studio somewhere).

I wince every time I see the lady doing metalwork wearing loads of jewellery – I’ve worked with a number of people that have missing fingers (in one case missing a whole arm from an engine test cell stumble). Some were very mundane incidents like snagging a wedding ring on racking.

mmm- de-gloving. My Dad always advised me to take rings off when working on our cars- he got hold of some photos from his work’s H&S guy to show me why.

Aye it’s horrible.

I only started wearing my wedding ring since I moved to office perminant.

I still take it off before going to the garage.

The guy that did the racking one still had the remains of his wedding ring which was stretched into a lovely teardrop shape just before it removed his finger.

Work is a test lab that is basically giant Meccanno (held together with M20 bolts) and massive hydraulic equipment. So for me no wedding ring, no watch, short sleeves and no ties……

Just watched the Beetle episode, never heard of the programme before reading this thread.

I wonder how long it would run before overheating?

Pretty sure those motorcycle headlights are mounted at 90° too so would have a completely unusable and illegal beam pattern…

I don’t think I’ll bother watching another!

I think the success of this show hinges slightly more on this… https://www.instagram.com/p/B5I_bIEAJuu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The Beetle episode was the first episode of this I watched, put me off going back, although the Enfield looked alright

NWM, quite possibly. I quite liked the t-shirts tbh, sorry “ Suck. Squeeze. Bang. Blow.” 😐

As far as watching anymore episodes, I am out. Have read the Piston Heads and Toyota club pages, the programme is, as others have said above, utter tv twoddle.

The 944 turbo looked like sacrilege until I realised what car it was. It had rear arches filled with fibreglass and had a wishbone and mirror off my old car to patch it up after being hit by a bus. The engine leaked oil from every possible seal but ran well.
The interior was nice though.