Camel Trophy History

[kbushnz]

I know they are Landies but the terrain is awesome....

[basics]

watched this the other day, too bad camel went all soft cock. cant blame land rover for pulling the plug.




maybe Toyota should start a new tough serries with out the kayaking

[guttix]

I've got a DVD of the 1987-89 events...awesome stuff.
87 is Rangie classics, but the 88/89 events with the 110 Defenders make for good viewing

[Suza]

Cheers for that I enjoyed watching till the last one when they used Freelanders I could then see why Landrover walked away

[pressy]

Cheers for that I enjoyed watching till the last one when they used Freelanders I could then see why Landrover walked away

X2 was great cheers

[mbw]

What a shame to see it end that way.

Started off with some serious offroading hard yakka and ending with some hippies playing in the snow, with freelanders!! (no wonder they had to take there bicycles with them)

Cool video, thanks.

[LR90NZ]

Camel Trophy was originally a promotional thing for RJ Reynolds the manufacturers of Camel Cigarettes. When it become unpopular to promote smoking they formed a company called Worldwide Brands which marketed Camel Adventure wear and clothing and used a very similar logo to the Camel cigarettes.

Eventually they got too much bad publicity over the 'destruction' of the environment despite their efforts to return something to the area they travelled through such as building research stations and helping villages along the way.

In its peak there were thousands of applicants quering up for the selection process to be picked to be part of the event each year.

I have all the original videos and DVD's from these events which went from 1981 through to 1998 (when the Freelander was used).

I then went a step further and bought one of the actual event vehicles.

[guttix]

I then went a step further and bought one of the actual event vehicles.

Brilliant...what vehicle have you got? And, are there DVD's of the '84, '85, or '86 events? I'd be keen to get ahold of them somehow

[basics]

I have all the original videos and DVD's from these events which went from 1981 through to 1998 (when the Freelander was used).

I then went a step further and bought one of the actual event vehicles.

we have a true fan here. i wondered what they done with all the old trucks, they must have taken a beating during the events. i would have guessed they offered them at a fair price to any one involved.

how did you wind up owning one?

[COILY]

Thats awesome. When i was a kid i used to alternate between the Camel Trophy and the Paris Dakar each time we went to the video store. They used to tell me you have already hired that one before haha. Think i started in 1987 with the Madagascar one. Probably can't use kayaks anymore now we dont own the water

[LR90NZ]

I then went a step further and bought one of the actual event vehicles.

Brilliant...what vehicle have you got? And, are there DVD's of the '84, '85, or '86 events? I'd be keen to get ahold of them somehow

I have a Camel Trophy Discovery from the 1994 event.
Those earlier events were only available on Video (pre DVD times).
The footage above is from a DVD they did summarsing the events between 1989 and 1998. There's another one called "Great Years Camel Trophy 1987-1989"

I must get those earlier videos copied onto DVD.

[LR90NZ]

I have all the original videos and DVD's from these events which went from 1981 through to 1998 (when the Freelander was used).

I then went a step further and bought one of the actual event vehicles.

we have a true fan here. i wondered what they done with all the old trucks, they must have taken a beating during the events. i would have guessed they offered them at a fair price to any one involved.

how did you wind up owning one?

Mortgaged the wife and dog .............