Goblin Garage on TV

[ronan]

The only ones I really watch are FantomWorks

Cannot stomach the dollop who owns that place. I have stopped watching any of these programmes, i avoid the new top gear like the plague, did not bother with the grand tour either. The IOM TT is it for me.

 

[8ob]

Just watched the latest episode with the Mini. Brand new aftermarket body, new motor, new subframes, and everything else. Nice job, I like the whole retro concept, but the front end just looks wrong.....

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I was thinking the same, watched the work that went into the motorised louvred light covers and spotted some ball joints that would be ideal for some throttle body linkages I need, never knew they were made that small Just need to remember what he called them

Bob

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Just need to remember what he called them

Catch-up TV

 

[Farside]

I only moan about infantile rubbish masquerading as documentaries, and yes i did switch off, and switched on the radio instead.
Also i don't moan about documentaries like the one below.

"Men with iron in their buttocks," quote McDonald Hobgoblin.
Not a phrase you hear everyday.

 

[8ob]

Catch-up TV

What trickery is this, only have normal tv here John

Bob

 

[stuvy]

What trickery is this, only have normal tv here John

Bob

Only have sky for bsb, MotoGP, wsb and speedway. Yep I watch all of them and the support races.

Who needs books with words and stuff

 

[slim_boy_fat]

What trickery is this, only have normal tv here John

Bob

I think it comes with 'smart' TVs ?

 

[stuvy]

@8ob there’s a bloke not chap or even person as this man is so low on the pond life scale that’s drinks in my local who had grass for a living room carpet... he’s only 60 something

 

[slim_boy_fat]

who had grass for a living room carpet.

Not the artificial sort?

 

[stuvy]

Not the artificial sort?

This fella could win the lottery and still wouldn’t be classy enough for faux grass

 

[Olderisbetter]

I have seen the new mini shells a few times but i still cannot see how its not ringing a car.

 

[Morrisman]

I have seen the new mini shells a few times but i still cannot see how its not ringing a car.

It’s totally ringing a car.

DVLA states that, in great detail, yet not a single car or bike magazine, (or tv series) seems to care when publishing photos of illegal builds replete with reg numbers and builders names.

Bought a car body, built a chassis myself, fitted a monster engine, added heavy duty axles, fitted a super transmission, changed to disc brakes, but I have the (I have a) V5 so it’s all cool.....

I believe Boyd Coddington, he of American Hot Rod, who basically invented custom alloy wheels, got busted big time for this years ago.

 

[Farside]

Don't be daft. Ringing is taking the write-off ID and transferring it to a stolen vehicle.
It's long been an acceptable repair to re-shell and put back into service, a smashed up car.

 

[Pete.]

Yeah re-shelling is legitimate. Ringing is putting a new identity on a stolen vehicle.

 

[HopefullySoon]

Yeah re-shelling is legitimate. Ringing is putting a new identity on a stolen vehicle.

What he said above .

When you buy a HERTIAGE shell you are Legally reshelling on the same reg .

If I’d have nicked a mini for its shell and used the same legal reg , that’s ringing .

A world of difference.

The only question is , is it still a 40
Year old car ??

 

[Farside]

What he said above .

When you buy a HERTIAGE shell you are Legally reshelling on the same reg .

If I’d have nicked a mini for its shell and used the same legal reg , that’s ringing .

A world of difference.

The only question is , is it still a 40
Year old car ??

At what point does the replacement of rusty old parts stop being repair and stray into a new build?
I'm reminded of the so-called 'restored' Rolls-Royce from the 1920s I came across. In chatting to the owner, I discovered that about 90% of it was made anew.
Took him 20 years, mind.

 

[HopefullySoon]

I have an MGB under restoration on a T plate (it’s a 79 anyway )

I’ve heritage boot , both sides for sills , FG doors bonnet boot front wing ya ya ya .

And as I said in my last is it a 40 year old car ??

I’d argue yes (cos I don’t have 8 grand for a new shell ! )

But if I did , I could equally argue the other .....

Opinions and backsides I suppose .

 

[ronan]

I seen an interview on the telly with someone from one of the steam train restoration lot, they had basically built a new steam loco. But because they still had something from the old loco they were copying, a whistle or something, they were going to fit, they classed it as a rebuild.

 

[Morrisman]

Don't be daft. Ringing is taking the write-off ID and transferring it to a stolen vehicle.
It's long been an acceptable repair to re-shell and put back into service, a smashed up car.

What he said above .

When you buy a HERTIAGE shell you are Legally reshelling on the same reg .

If I’d have nicked a mini for its shell and used the same legal reg , that’s ringing .

A world of difference.

The only question is , is it still a 40
Year old car ??

Right, buy an old V5, buy a new body-shell, new engine, new axles, what can possibly go wrong?

 

[optima21]

As with every car they build, it is currently SORN and not MOT’d, so......

, and Im guessing that the London to Brighton run was done on a private road

you have to wonder who would want to buy the car though, as its alot of money for something thats not so special, and I think it wont have met its claim of being the fastest mini about as I'm sure there will be much faster ones about......project binky it isn't......bit with a clubman, they could have fit a rover v8 under the bonnet.