Jimmy De Ville Biography
Jimmy De Ville is an extreme engineer, race car driver, a former soldier and television personality. He is the founder and presenter of Goblin Works Garage and Fifth Gear.
Jimmy De Ville Real Name
His full names are Briton Jimmy de Ville.
Jimmy De Ville Age
He was born in 1972, Britain.
Jimmy De Ville Height
De Ville stand at a height of 5 feet and 7 inches tall.
Jimmy De Ville Education
Jimmy has a BSc Hons in Product Design and Engineering and was awarded the Trevor Baylis Award 2000 for Innovation in Design.
Jimmy De Ville Parents
Jimmy is the son of James Louis De Ville and his wife Mary Bryant. His family fell on hard times, and as a boy De Ville was fostered by an uncle who had a brickmaking business there.
Jimmy De Ville Siblings
Jimmy has not revealed information regarding his siblings.
Jimmy De Ville Wife
His marital status is known. He keeps his personal life private.
Jimmy De Ville Children
Jimmy has not disclosed any information about children.
Jimmy De Ville Extreme Engineer
Jimmy is an extreme engineer whose passion in fixing things stemmed from his frustration when toys broke. His early carrer involved the design and development of Action Man and Micro Machine toys for Hasbro. He was then invited to build a radio controlled paranormal search vehicle for Channel 5’s TV show Urban Gothic.
He then joined SFX house where he worked on various ventures including stage shows, music videos, adverts, interactive museum exhibits, feature films as well as factual, magic and live TV shows for five years.
He also worked as an approved 1st Option Safety Group Ltd engineering consultant for programs including Channel 4’s Scrapheap Challenge, Windfall Films’ Building the Bouncing Bomb, Dragonfly Productions’ Beat the Ancestors, National Geographic’s None of the Above 1&2, BBC Knowledge’s Factomania, and Discovery’s Breaking Magic.
Jimmy De Ville Goblin Works Garage
De Ville is the owner, designer and engineer at Goblin Works Garage Limited alongside Helen Stanley (Custom car designer/builder) and Anthony Partridge (Motorcycle designer/builder). Goblin Works was an old British brand that died but the three resurrected it. The trio redesign and custom build “classic cars and badass bikes that aim to mess with people’s motoring perceptions!”
Their work is documented on Discovery Channel as part of the TV series Goblin Works Garage. The show highlights the ins and out of how the trio come together to engineer and design to restore the Goblin Works Garage. The show also airs on Quest TV in the UK.
Jimmy De Ville Fifth Gear
In 2018 Jimmy joined Dicovery’s Quest TV show ‘Fifth Gear’ as a co-host alongside regulars Jason Plato, Vicki Butler-Henderson, and Jonny Smith. They test, review and compare a huge range of cars, from hot hatchbacks to versatile 4x4s and more.
Jimmy De Ville Engine Addict
Jimmy’s first television show was ‘Engine Addict with Jimmy de Ville‘ on Discovery. In the show, he traveled to Poland, India, Brazil, Sweden and Austria where he explored abandoned factories, junkyards and deserted airfields to unearth an incredible range of combustion engines. He then maximized the engine’s capabilities in specially created vehicles, all the while reflecting on the role engines have played in the progress of mankind.
Jimmy De Ville Jet Boat
While filming ‘Engine Addict with Jimmy de Ville‘ put a jet engine into a speedboat. In the episode, Jimmy created the world’s first two-seater jet boat to find out if his engine is the ultimate ‘Indestructible Engineering Icon’. He hunted the legendary engine that powers military jets across the globe – the Rolls Royce Viper turbojet. He bought the engine on an abandoned Cold War airfield in the East of England. With the help of engineer and turbojet fanatic, Adrian Bennett they built a jet boat and tested it on the world famous waters of Scotland’s Loch Ness as it faces extreme vibration in an environment a jet engine was never designed to operate in.
Jimmy De Ville Military Career
He is a former soldier who is a qualified Class One Small Arms British Army Armourer involved with the development, maintenance and use of firearms and equipment. He is also a qualified Range Conducting Officer, combat medic and a top fifty shooting medalist.
He was deployed to Iraq where he provided force protection to UK assets, earning a General Officer Commanding’s Commendation in the process. In 2011 he was deployed to Afghanistan where he trained local forces in tactics, weapon handling and deployment.
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Jimmy De Ville and Helen Stanley
Jimmy and Helen are co-hosts on Goblin Works Garage. They both work as custom car designers/builders.
Jimmy De Ville Salary
De Ville earns an estimated annual salary of USD 150,000.
Jimmy De Ville Net worth
His actual net worth is unknown but it is estimated to be around $1 million.
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