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The
Camel Trophy offroad competition became Land Rover's premiere
showcase for their vehicles. A combination of rally, race,
and teamwork tested identically prepared vehicles, crewed
by teams from around the world. Legendary off road feats
were achieved on trails that were only theoretically passable.
Teams often had to build their own bridges or float  their
vehicles across rivers. Axle deep mud in jungles (oops, 'rainforest'),
choking dust on high plains, steep slopes where a winch is
mandatory, and vast deserts all tested the crews and their
vehicles. Rip a tire sidewall? Your team has to break the
bead and replace the tire in the field. Most of the vehicle
modifications you can see: they were add ons to factory stock
vehicles.
Camel Trophy has been gone for several years
now, the victim of the ban on tobacco advertising. Regardless
of how you feel about the brand name, the drama and challenge
of Camel Trophy is the reason that it is still fondly remembered.
Today Camel Trophy is still seen as the
ultimate Land Rover adventure, and the few surviving Camel
Trophy trucks are highly prized collectors items. You can
relive or even recreate the Camel Trophy era with BP's gear!
Camel
Trophy T-shirt
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Created
by Disney artist Stark Howell exclusively for British
Pacific, this dramatic action image conveys the essence
of the Camel Trophy competition: do what it takes.
Sizes in stock: medium to XXL; other
sizes available by special order.
CTshirt
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Camel
Trophy DVD Compilation: 1989-1998
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The
highlights from the glory years of Land Rover: if you
like your off roading in axle deep mud, hood high water,
choking dust, or winching over rocks, this is the video
for you.
Over
1.5 hours of transaxle crunching action, featuring
Land Rover Discoverys, D110's, even a few Range Rovers
and Freelanders. DVD digital quality and stereo sound,
plus it's searchable.
DVD:
CTDVD
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Camel
Trophy Decals
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6"
CT plain
STK99
7" CT Team UK
STK98A
7" CT Team USA
STK98
background
colors may vary
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Camel
Trophy hat
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The
Camel Trophy was Land Rover's premiere showcase for
their vehicles. It's been replaced by the G4 challenge,
which uses dealership teams to display their ability
with their products. Our tangerine hat mimics the current
G4 look, but still tips the cap to the granddaddy of
offroad team competitions.
CTHAT
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Building
your own Camel Trophy Look-alike:
Support
110 up for sale after tripEach
year that Land Rover was a sponsor of the event, Special Vehicles
prepared about 40 trucks for it. Range Rover Classics, Discoverys,
90 and 110's, Series, and Freelanders were used to promote
the range. (The 'Defender' name first showed up in 1990, to
help differentiate the range from Discovery.) Defenders were
also used in later years as support vehicles:
the Freelanders each had their own D110: they
carried emergency
radio gear and medical supplies. Camel
Trophy vehicles are all painted 'Sandglow', color code LRC
361. It's a very late '70's color that was used on other British
Leyland vehicles such as the Austin Marina. Today it's dramatic
because it isn't silver, white, or black. Just repainting
your truck will make it stand out from the crowd. Often the
hoods wore blackout decals to reduce glare: this can be replicated
with semi-gloss black.
The vehicles themselves weren't highly modified. The idea
was to prove the mettle of the range as they came off
the line. One of the things we can't stress strongly enough
is that these teams did amazing things off road with nearly
stock Land Rovers.
All
Camel Trophy Land Rovers and Range Rovers have full
length Safety Devices roof racks, additional lighting,
front bull bar with winch, and snorkel. They also had full
roll cages. Later models had steering and diff protectors,
more aggressive springs (required with the extra weight
carried), and a gas tank guard. Engines were diesels.
The
wheel and tire combo in the later runs were 7 x 16 Michelin
XZL's. Land Rover did not use big tires and wheels.
Our ANR4636PM wheels with a set of aggressive treaded 235/85's
will replicate the look.
Recovery
gear included sand ladders (the support vehicles carried bridging
ladders), jerrycans, winches, straps, shovels, kinetic ropes,
hatchet, and more. Radios included CB, GPS, and Terratrip
computers. Tree branch cables were used on most models, mounted
on the bull bar and up to the roof rack.
Since
the teams would be off in the outback for weeks, clothing,
personal items, and food was also carried, plus sleeping gear.
These heavy duty outdoor suitcases were stored in the roof
rack. CT trucks always looked loaded down for a week's camping.
Over
the years, as such events do, it started to shift away from
the extreme off roading. In 1998 when the Freelander was used,
teams could choose their own routes and special tasks. However,
it needs to be noted that Camel Trophy trucks always came
back with damage. Many were rolled over, and few were still
usable on their return.
Some
trucks have been extensively rebuilt and are very rare among
Land Rover collectors. You can re-create the image and look
of a CT truck with gear supplied by BP, some scrounging on
your own, and fabrication. The Disco 1 is the easiest to do:
they are easy to find, inexpensive, and parts are plentiful.
Build it one component at a time or all at once, you'll have
something fun and distinctive, reflecting the era when Land
Rover really was the best 4x4xfar.
Disco
1 CT look-alike grocery list:
Sandglow
paint, semi-gloss black (local auto paint store)
ARB bull bar: 3432050 (airbag
compatible) product description
Snorkel kit: SS390HF product
description
Steel wheels: NTC5193PM
Sand ladders: GMN041 (pair):
mounting kit 4-STMB product
description
Steering protector: GAD045 product
description
Emu medium duty coil springs: OME761 x
2; OME764 x
2
Emu gas shocks: N45F x
2, N46 x
2
Jerrycans:
gas GJC20,
water 20WATERBLU,
spout semi flex GJC002
product
descriptions
Decal 'Land Rover' oval logo, 12" STK3 x
2 (fits on rear fender behind doors)
product
description
Series III CT
look-alike grocery list:
Sandglow paint, semi-gloss black (local auto paint store). Body
is Sunglow, front bumper painted black. The SIII Camel
trophy Land Rovers did not have roll bars, snorkel or pioner
tools mounted outside. The originals were German spec
Similar looking to US spec) with 2.25L diesel engines.
Small Camel Trophy country team stickers were mounted to
left hand rear window STK98 (see
picture near top of this page)
Steel 16 inch wheels: ANR4636PM (5-1/2
" wide) ANR1534PM (6 " wide). 750X16 tires were mounted.
Sand ladders: GMN041 (pair):
mounting kit 4-STMB product
description
Genuine Land Rover work lamp was mounted to rear RTC8921AA
Genuine Land Rover 'D' recovery rings was mounted to top
of front bumper 267950
Front of roof rack mounted a pair of 7 inch dia. lights 900XSD Product
description
A pair of rectangular fog lamps were mounted to the top
of the bumper PRC8238 Product
description
Both Waren 8274 and Ramsey DC-200 winches were used.
Jerrycans: gas GJC20,
water 20WATERBLU,
spout semi flex GJC002
product
descriptions (we have after market jerry can mounts. Genuine
ones have been discontinued)
Orders:
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Pacific time
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