j4ckos mate

This prog is as good as top gear.


one qestion though, why do they have such a large turn around of staff?
does he just hire them for one year?

DCI Gene Hunt

Is the blonde with the chest just for eye candy reasons (she's always 'aving a ***!) or can she do anything??

paulwrxboro

[QUOTE=DCI Gene Hunt;7475950]Is the blonde with the chest just for eye candy reasons (she's always 'aving a ***!) or can she do anything??

my bet is she can do lots of things, with the right training

Shark Man

The producers of the show actually own the garage - they bought it to host the program (how else do you think Jock got a new M5? ).

So I guess, "featured" (as in people shown on the program) staff are either short term contracts which are renewed as and when, and brought in by the producers. As I'm sure some of the cars.

Being a mechanic is one thing, but one also has to have characters worthy of maintaining viewers. So underdogs may well be purposely employed in aim to stir things up. And then happily dropped as and when needed. Or they walk on their own accord. Either way, it makes TV

However, our local dealership who will remain nameless, has a higher turn around in staff. Quoting from a freind who moved from an independant garage to work there, being disgusted and outraged when he was exposed to company procedures which are implemented purely to rip off customers (ooo, you'll need pads AND discs, sir ). But that's another story

paulwrxboro

i heard jock had the garage for 29 years ?
unless it was in the uk, idunno


anyone watch american hotrod ? same sort of thing but with better cars

j4ckos mate

how do you knowits owned by the producers, i cant see that.

jaytc2003

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I used to but it was more or less the same every episode, having an intern who wasnt up to the job, sacking them, everyone moaning about how far behind they are etc etc etc just got too repetetive for me (think they are all repeats now as well)

The garage is a bit of fresh air although it too does have similarites with American Hotrod however the people employed have better personalities, and that dodgy pete customer is off his head. One episode recently said he had branched out into online pharmacuticals!! (probably means he imports steroids from turkey )

paulwrxboro

just started wathching it the last few weeks, so im getting right into it,
cant beleave that bluebear got offered to build his own hot rod for free and get paid for doing it,, and ended up geting the sack , ended up with nowt , what a mug

j4ckos mate

Well i think its ace

GC8WRX

Yeah, if i worked with that "bluebear", id have kicked his head in a long time ago, *****!!!!

And whats the deal with the cnc guy and his spooky mouth?????

fatscoobfella1

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Apparently he and Boyds son rolled a hot rod in the desert and Mike landed on his face!!

As for the "garage"....Just a bunch of monkeys..

Im surprised they get any work at all,the spaniards must be really crap at spannering..

Sandy the 4x4 guy is the only decent mechanic in there,and the reason Jock has no teeth is probably because,they have been kicked in previously by someone who took exeption to his arrogant,foul mouthed demeanour..

If my leg was long enough i would kick his teeth in from here!!

mart360

If i recall,

First Charlie, and then Mike have both gone to work for Chip Foose

Mart

paulwrxboro

he had a dream job ,with a boss that liked him, building his own dream car,and getting paid for it,

he must be sitting in his own p1ss now somewere drunk thinking about what he had and missed, with every second person he meats saying ,you are a *****


i think hes the only one that hasent gone to work for chip foose

Avi

Ad here seems to imply that the mechanics are recruited by endemol, the company who produces the series!

Are You An Experienced Qualified Mechanic? - Used Car Forums

jaytc2003

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sandy is funny trying to understand what he says like

ukbob

all the hot rod and garage quotes are from the old repeats.the only girl in the garage this year is jocks daughter.the high turn over of staff is probably down to jock and possibly the work is a little more seasonal than the uk.jock owns the garage,possibly discovery channel put in some money for the 2nd unit[top side}why the heck he still employs ricky is beyond me!

Gutmann pug

I quite like it, watch it every night........ I also like American Hotrod

Nido

Why did he get sacked, I missed that bit of the series?!?

what would scooby do

from some of the comments above, I'm still amazed that people think everything on TV is real

paulwrxboro

It was basicly because, Boyde wanted him to box his frame for safety and bluebear just said no , then said ok , then never done it ,then said il do it, then told mike to drill big holes in it .he was just a total **** over the whole thing, what a fool , it realy was the chance of a lifetime


its being repeated on discovery turbo at the moment

Shark Man

He did have his own business. One way or the other the producers bought the business off him, or they employed him in a new setup, so what is shown on TV is not his business - even if he appears to run it. Either way Jock landed in a nice little earner.

I used to watch American Hotrod, but it's all repeats of the first series now. Are there any new ones being made now?...If I see that Junkyard dog one once more I'll scream - as I missed most of the last series and they keep repaeting the same old episodes over and over, but never seem to show the later ones which I missed. Grrr Supoose I'll just have to find and d/l the torrents instead :rolleyes

The Rig

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i was gonna say,the hotrod shows on tv now are VERY VERY VERY old, charlie has gone,mike has gone, bluebear has gone, the old timer has gone,the black guy has gone, the foreign guy who paints has gone too.

the garageis o.k to watch, but i dont doubt the guys mechanical knowledge,buit for some reason,they all come across ashome diy MECHANICS Llike us from the mistakes they make etc etc

still good to watch
they must like ricky,is his name, the mini me jock lookalaike, 2nd series and still there(well,2nd trip out for the summer for him)

buffalo

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the garage belongs to jock, he started off decades ago working from a van, hence mobile mechanic, and it took off untill he bought the premises you see now. he may have expanded teh garage due to extra money from tv, who knows, but discovery certainly dont own it or hire and fire staff, infact when they first tried to get jock onboard he told them to f off and took them several attempt to convince him of a fly on the wall type one off before it became a reality series. this is all ofcourse true if the interview with jock i read was correct lol

j4ckos mate

I Love this series its as good as top gear

Borat_Drives_A_Scooby

Is this the same series thats being constantly repeated or have they done a new series of the garage ?

Brendan Hughes

No, it's the same post that's being constantly repeated

J4CKO

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He isn't averse to repeats himself, hmmmmm Hovis.

j4ckos mate

This prog is as good as top gear.


one qestion though, why do they have such a large turn around of staff?
does he just hire them for one year?

97TURBO

Jock did own the garage but it was bought out by the producers after the first series as they realised it was going to be a hit. Jock still has the say so on hiring and firing, also he probably had a nice wee clause in the deal that means they cant ditch him. He is what makes the programme work anyway.
The turn over in staff is because like jock said, they all go out there thinking cheap booze, nice woman and lots of sun but forget they have to actually work 8am-6pm 5 or 6 days a week.