Combat Dealers
Upcoming episodes
Apr 24th
1000p
PANTHER
Ten years in the making. Bruce’s proudest achievement and the twins biggest ever restoration project. The completion of the Panther finally comes to fruition. But not before some last-minute dramas. With the deadline for completion brought forward, the twins have their work cut out. First, they need to build the gearbox; hundreds of moving parts need to be assembled in exactly the right order, with only the original manual to help them. Once built, the twins face the delicate task of dropping it into the tank’s belly by crane; preferably without squashing Nick in the process. Next up the turret needs to be craned on too, it weighs a few tonnes but needs to align just so. But that’s not all, the twins hit a speed bump with the restoration. The ignition switch seems to be malfunctioning.
Apr 25th
1000p
BLITZ
Bruce lands a new client that catapults his business into the next century. Computer games company Rebellion want to 3D scan items from the Blitz so they can include super accurate digital models in their World War 2 computer games. Stocks of blitz items are low, so Bruce and Freddie hit the road, visiting dealers across the country. They track down an impressive array of items that tell stories from the darkest days of the war.
Apr 26th
1000p
007- JAMES BOND
It’s a spy mission like no other. Bruce has been commissioned by Canadian author & historian, David O’Keefe to find items related to Bond author, Ian Fleming. Fleming was a British Intelligence Officer during WW2 and was at the heart of Naval Intelligence, devising schemes to thwart the Nazis and gather vital information for the allies.
Apr 28th
300p
SECRETS AND SPIES
Bruce turns James Bond when a WWII Resistance museum in France sends him on a mission to find secret and spy related items. Such objects are rare and Bruce’s little black book of dealers and private collectors takes him around the UK and over to Italy. Uncovering a box of parts for a special anti-tank weapon, designed by ‘Churchill’s Toyshop’ that made secret weapons for spies, he charges Freddy with restoring it to test and sell to a buyer. Needless to say it ends with a bang!
Apr 28th
400p
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Always looking to increase his stock and his list of contacts, Bruce and ex–Para Freddy are on a business trip to Russia. Helped out by his trusty Muscovite dealer friend Dimitri, Bruce buys his way around some of Moscow’s biggest military dealers. He also gets a lucky introduction to an oligarch who seems to take a liking to Bruce and insists he takes him shooting! In the U.K twins, Nick and Phil are having slightly less fun. Bruce has tasked them with restoring a rare bit of German kit for a client of his, the problem is, there’s no instruction manual and nobody quite seems to understand what it is!
Apr 29th
1000p
THE COUNTRY FAIR
Military wheeler-dealer Bruce Crompton has been asked to put on a display at his local Country Fare. Bruce’s sees this as a great opportunity to raise business. To get noticed he wants to publicly swim a German Army vehicle called a Schwimmwagen and goes on the hunt for one abandoned in Normandy after WWII. If he can track it down it would be worth a fortune. Meanwhile money-man Hus and the twins try to fix a beast of a motorbike; a wartime Harley Davidson. To sell it, it must work, but the ‘Horrible Harley’ won’t even start. It’s sink or schwimm time.
Apr 30th
1000p
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
Bruce wants to bag himself a mega-rich customer in the form of Russian Oligarch Slava; one of the biggest collectors in the business. After luring him back to his workshops with an offer to drive and a shoot his rare German Hetzer tank, Bruce must get it, and other guns and vehicles, working and ready to sell. The tank needs an engine and a machine gun and the twins have to fix it in time for the Russian’s visit. Meanwhile, Bruce heads off to the former Eastern bloc and discovers there are still rare finds to be had, including those at a former secret Soviet airfield.
May 1st
1000p
THE D_DAY PARACHUTE JUMP
Bruce rises to a challenge to do a D-Day parachute jump in Normandy. Although an ex- Para himself, he hasn’t properly jumped in over 30 years. Deciding to do it authentically he sets about finding and buying genuine WWII paratrooper uniforms and kit. Bruce is also looking to fix, do-up and sell two classic wartime vehicles; a British Army armoured car called a Dingo and an American Willy’s jeep. That means twin mechanics Nick and Phil, must work double-time to find the faults and fix them. And Ian hunts for a machine gun that would have been mounted on the back.
May 2nd
1000p
BANGS AND BOMBS
Military WW2 dealer Bruce Compton takes money-man Hus on a picking trip to Germany. Hus gets worried exploring a dealer’s military junkyard when they discover a nuclear core from a secret Nazi nuclear testing factory. Back in the UK the danger mounts as Bruce tests the impact different explosives have on vehicles in a bid to solve a mystery about what kind of explosion could have blown a hole in his 8 tonne German Army truck. Meanwhile, the engineering skills of the twins are put to the test as they re-commission a WWII PAK 40 mortar gun ready to shoot, to impress a possible buyer.
May 3rd
1000p
OPERATION CLEAR-OUT
Things are not going well for Bruce Crompton. His wife is threatening to clear out the messy warehouse where he stockpiles his military kit; he paid well over the odds for a rusty shell of a German Army transport vehicle; and the twins can’t fix a WWII vehicle called a Kübelwagen, made by Volkswagen. But his luck is due to change. In amongst the clear out he finds an incredible pair of trousers made in a German concentration camp, that are worth thousands. And a Military historian discovers the rusty shell he bought is not just rare, but unique, and worth a mint.