2014 · 5 seasons · — · ★ 6.8
Combat Dealers follows the adventures of Bruce Crompton, a buyer and seller of old military kit. He travels around the barns and battlefields of Europe and the old Eastern Bloc, hunting down everything from old radio kits to WWII tanks. There is nothing Bruce won't do to get the right kit at the right price, and to make a tidy profit. Across the series Bruce and his team turn rusty military metal into historical and financial gold.
Start from S1E1 · The Country Fair
E12014
Military equipment collector Bruce Compton travels the world to view vehicles and memorabilia worth buying and restoring. In the first edition, the larger-than-life Londoner gets his hands on a 70-year-old Volkswagen Schwimmwagen - an amphibious car that he test-drives through a lake at a country fare.
E22014
Bruce Compton hopes to buy a rare German Hetzer tank from Russian oligarch Slava, who will need some persuading.
E32014
Bruce Compton hopes to make some money selling props to Hollywood producers who require genuine military vehicles for a movie shoot.
E42014
Military equipment collector Bruce Compton recreates a D-Day parachute jump in a genuine Second World War uniform.
E52014
Military equipment collector Bruce Compton visits Germany, where he discovers a nuclear core from a secret Nazi weapon-testing factory.
E62014
Bruce Compton hopes to make a handsome profit by selling some of the long-forgotten treasures that lie around his cluttered warehouse.
Biography
1987·6.7
