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| seriesonenut Member Since: 19 Nov 2014 Location: Essex Posts: 1227  
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Not at all. This has been irritating me over the last two series. Come on BBC sort it out.....
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4th Jan 2025 12:53am |
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| rustandoil Member Since: 08 Sep 2012 Location: Cotswolds Posts: 755  
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Surprised this hasn't been mentioned previously š
The BBC has probably recruited these Defenders from a local club? There was a website where you could register your car to be used in TV, I think I read about it on the Series 2 forum? |
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4th Jan 2025 7:46am |
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| donmacn Member Since: 06 Nov 2017 Location: Nth Scotland Posts: 1848 
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As I understand it, the cars were/are actually supplied under contract by a film industry vehicle supplier down near Glasgow somewhere, and then provided/maintained more locally. With the enormous expense of having everything and everyone on location for a āremoteā TV shoot like this, they couldnāt afford to have it done by a club or the like if it caused any kind of schedule delays.
I also believe that they have another daily āspareā immediately available during filming which can be quickly swapped in should something happen to one of the other vehicles, so the ābrokenā car can then be repaired/returned off-line. Iād heard that not all the competitors are exactly familiar with permanent 4wd, or that Land Rovers arenāt really indestructible! This kind-of explains the mis-matched paint between interior and exterior, where other suitable cars needed to be provided in āTraitors blackā - but itās only really geeks like us which will notice! Donald 1994 Defender 300Tdi 110 SW - owned since 2002 - 230k miles and going strong (The 'rolling restoration' or tinkering thread: http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic58538.html ) 2000 Range Rover P38 4.0L V8 in the past.. RR classic - fitted with 200Tdi 1984 RR classic - V8 with ZF auto box 1993 Discovery 300Tdi not to mention the minis and the Type 2 VW camper... |
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4th Jan 2025 11:41am |
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| Zed Member Since: 07 Oct 2017 Location: In the woods Posts: 3330 
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Arenāt those the same Defenderās supplied to the Channel 4 SAS programme when filmed in Scotland? WARNING.
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4th Jan 2025 12:12pm |
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| bankz5152 Member Since: 02 Feb 2017 Location: South London/North Kent Posts: 2187 
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Funnily enough the 110 I bought last year was going to be bought by them for the show until I swooped in and bought it š
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4th Jan 2025 6:19pm |
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| Linds Hanson Member Since: 16 Jan 2021 Location: Cornwall Posts: 487
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I get told off every episode for complaining about the said vehicles, what a set of old dogs tarted up badly to look like late Defenders. One has a matt black sprayed headlining, another a horrible fibreglass badly painted black headlining which is trying to part company as they drive along. I guess Claudia gets the majority of the budget?
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6th Jan 2025 6:42pm |
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| mini Anaconda Member Since: 23 Aug 2016 Location: Thames Valley Posts: 793
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this yesterday while watching it.
One of them is missing a rear mudflap too, which is of course extra irritating to the eye.  BORG - Bucks & Oxon 4x4 Response Group
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7th Jan 2025 12:30pm |
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| Stacey007 Member Since: 25 Sep 2015 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3772
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I'm watching the 3rd series and enjoy it..as I did the 1st and 2nd
I offered them my car, there was a request ages ago on a forum I forget where. Spoke to the guy who was organizing transport etc but in the end decided not to.. They always look good in convoy (just like SAS) almost Bond film like.. It does add to the program for me  |
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7th Jan 2025 1:42pm |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5858  
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Opening scene at the castle of this yearās episode, and they arrive to park up in-line, with a nose-to-the-ground shot that nicely highlighted the unbelievably rusty set of nuts on one of the front wheels. Even Mrs Grenadier felt the need to comment and she is used to living with my slightly battered truck.
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7th Jan 2025 2:14pm |
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| csw110 Member Since: 17 Dec 2012 Location: sheffield Posts: 57
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https://www.instagram.com/wanderingicons?u...c0MzIxNw==
Hope the link works, met the owner of Wandering Icons whilst on holiday in Scotland, he told us a film company had hired his def3nders for a film shoot & had them all sprayed black. |
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8th Jan 2025 10:15am |
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