Camel Trophy

What was the inspiration? Do you remember why? Was there a moment in time you thought, I'm going to go to

Sandhurst? I was fishing around and I was doing things like going and calling people like the Camel Trophy and Operation Rally and things like that that went and did exciting things in interesting places.

Because I did a stint in Southern Africa in Zambia when I was at university.

I basically spent the summer working for a charity and that really kind of got me, oh, wow, the world is amazing.

around.

The only ball bar I like is the Camel Trophy one where it's flat.

Ah, the flat one.

The flat one.

[upbeat music] It's the Underpowered Hour on this week's show.

The new all-electric Jaguar is finally out, the new Freelander's coming to Europe, and then we're joined by off-road competitors Tiernan Ken to talk about the Defender Trophy and the Camel Trophy.

And now, here's the show.

[upbeat music] Welcome to the Underpowered Hour.

Well, exciting show today.

We have some special guests joining us a little later on.

I think it's fair to say it may be one of, if not the first Camel Trophy competitor plus Defender Trophy competitor hybrid father-son interview that any Land Rover podcast has done.

Oh, yes.

He started as a school kid freelancing for Land Rover Owner Magazine.

And correct me if I'm wrong on this, this is all internet sleuthing, right? Then he was a photographer on the last four Camel Trophies and on the Land Rover G4 Challenge.

He's an award-winning photographer and writer who has worked for Land Rover for nearly 30 years.

That work has taken him to close to 90 countries, from two drives between London and India to the 24-hour races at Le Mans and the Nürburgring.

And it was, you know, literally you just keep going until you dropped.

You know, it was a long thing.

I mean, that event, people have said that was one of the toughest events camel trophies we did i mean most camel trophies are about a thousand miles in three weeks that was that was the plan but on that event it was um where was it excuse me borneo so it was i don't know

where borneo is man i'm not worried

They obviously don't do a lot of American muscle, but are starting to do more, uh, which is cool.

Land Rover Defender, another Camel Trophy car.

The Lamborghini Urus, that one in a, uh, purple.

Uh, the Hyundai Ico- IONIQ 5 N.

Would love to add a Urus to the collection, but, um, the purple's probably not my thing, and, and yeah, I wouldn't, I pr- I won't pick up the Camel or the Z3.

That's, that's Mini GT.

I don't understand why you don't like the Camels.

The Camels are insane.

That's actually, that's actually another-

Isn't that what you tried to do with the Camel Trophy truck a couple years ago?

I was just gonna say, it's actually a pretty cheapie to get, uh, you know, some, uh, deferred maintenance-

To get Nick to fix your Camel Trophy truck

... taken care of.

Yeah, no, it's-

So we got some really awesome aluminum roof boxes from Zarges.

And-

When I was young, there was Swatch and there was Casio.

That is what you wore, or Camel Trophy if you were really cool.

But today, I think my daughter sometimes wears her Swatch, but I think a lot of kids in her classroom, they don't have a watch.

They don't grow up with a watch.

I have done that, but, but submarines and stuff.

You're like, "I just wanna tinker with things." And then, you know, m- uh, being a Land Rover fan my whole life, I, I grew up watching the Camel Trophy and stuff, as we've talked about, and then that kind of was just like, "All right, I'm gonna get a Land Rover.

I'm gonna work on it." And then I got a-- I bought a Series 2a, uh, which then I promptly, uh, bent a push rod on, so I've been rebuilding that engine for about a year.

[laughs] Uh, and, uh, but yeah, no, it's, it's, it's all kind of tied together for me.

Yeah, he's-

And he's done the FMS Camel Trophy ones as well.

Made them look like they've done the Camel Trophy.

It's absolutely brilliant.

But, um-