Bush Tucker Man's Land Rover

[Gab250]

Hey, this question is for any Australians that were familiar with the old ABC TV show Bush Tucker Man, my question is, I know he drove a Landy, and it looks like a series III or a defender, but I want to know what it's specs and stuff were. For anyone that wants to refresh their memory, I'll post a link to a youtube vid where you can see it.

Cheers, Gab

Bush Tucker Man - Northern Territory part 1 of 3 - YouTube

[Ranga]

This might help a bit

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-chat/177685-bush-tucker-man-vehicle-goes-museum.html

[Bearman]

Isuzu 4BD1 powered 110 with 4 speed lt95 gearbox. These are currently being auctioned off and replaced with Merc G wagons.

[matts]

It has been put in the military museum out at east point in Darwin

[THE BOOGER]

It has been put in the military museum out at east point in Darwin

Only last week I think:D

[manchild21000]

I know who has his D3 . Very well set up truck .
George

[Davehoos]

there is 2 bush tucker vehicles--one is a civilian military spec provided by JRA to match the earlier shows.has winch.

I had to do the number plate shuffle when the line got out of sequence.
its a lot harder than you think to swap canopies-les has no OZ cam.

48-001 sat out in the yard for a few weeks before being reversed back up the line for photos.the photos in the paper was from the hand over in queensland-of the 1000 perentie--I had a yellow polo shirt and we had a party in the inboxing area.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Actually in series two of the Bush Tucker man series, there were three: the Perentie used in shot and two civilian 110 wagons. The original plan was that these two vehicles would be used as a promotion for JRA by way of a viewer competition when the series was aired. Unfortunately the ABC crew damaged the bodies so badly they were unsaleable. Both vehicles were purchased by Peter C from Bowral, one he sold to his neighbour and AFAIk that one now lives in QLD.

The other has been onsold, is unregistered and stored at Chipping Norton, the image below is it stored elsewhere about two years ago.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/08/1313.jpg

[Davehoos]

malcom douglas had one the same colour.serviced at moorbank.

i ran it through the water test to wash off the red dust.

it was 49.000 that they did publicity pictures. as it was after the first 1000.
bush tucker vehicle was built with alsorts of other odd bods.about the same time.

the number plates don't run in sequence and they sometimes got mixed up.

[Scouse]

malcom douglas had one the same colour.serviced at moorbank.

i ran it through the water test to wash off the red dust.

it was 49.000 that they did publicity pictures. as it was after the first 1000.
bush tucker vehicle was built with alsorts of other odd bods.about the same time.

the number plates don't run in sequence and they sometimes got mixed up.I was at Moorebank & saw/worked on MD's 110 in the workshop at the back of the main shed a few times. It was blue though, not green. IIRC, he had a fiberglass croc on the roof rack on one visit.

I also did some of the prep work on the Army 110 which JRA had Caldwells paint white for Les Hiddens.

[THE BOOGER]

Strange we were all there at the same time probably same day, I looked after his dog at the gate house while malcom had lunch waiting for the rear door seals to be fixed (letting in dust):)

[Scouse]

I started at JRA in late 1989 & went just before the bust up in June 1991.
If you manned the gatehouse, you might remember the workshop apprentice with the Morris Minor (I'm trying to remember which one I drove then, it may have been the rough looking panel van then).

[THE BOOGER]

I was there 88 to 89 you were not the appy i handcuffed to the car park gate ( for being annoying) then remembered i didnt have my keys:D I can now pick the lock in about 30sec.

[10 inches more]

This has nothing to do about nothing, and I know this thread hasn't been visited for months, but if we're into name dropping with the Bush Tucker Man I can add my two bobs worth also.
I drove for the Capricorn Roadhouse at Newman in 1996 when we had the contract to supply fuel, water and beer between Wiluna and Broome for the Land Rover Calvert Centenary Expedition. Les somehow got roped into part of this and I don't remember why, but I had to tow his trailer from the fuel dump at Well 23 on the Canning Stock Route, over the sand dunes to the camp set up adjacent to the air strip.
I did meet him a couple of days later, he flagged me down and gave me a serve for driving too fast along the Talawana Track.
There you go, that is my claim to fame...
Danny

[78RRman]

Thanks Gab

Just sat there and watched bush tucker man on YouTube for a couple of hours, really enjoyed myself, nearly fell into the camel trophy trap.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Ben

[pop058]

I am led to believe the white 110 county is still alive and resting. We (Nan & I) had a cuppa with the owner late last year. It was a chance meeting when we both arrived at the same servo (us in the S3 and him in his Defer wagon).

[steane]

This has nothing to do about nothing, and I know this thread hasn't been visited for months, but if we're into name dropping with the Bush Tucker Man I can add my two bobs worth also.
I drove for the Capricorn Roadhouse at Newman in 1996 when we had the contract to supply fuel, water and beer between Wiluna and Broome for the Land Rover Calvert Centenary Expedition. Les somehow got roped into part of this and I don't remember why, but I had to tow his trailer from the fuel dump at Well 23 on the Canning Stock Route, over the sand dunes to the camp set up adjacent to the air strip.
I did meet him a couple of days later, he flagged me down and gave me a serve for driving too fast along the Talawana Track.
There you go, that is my claim to fame...
Danny

Classic! :D