The Living Daylights Army Series III
The British Army Series III 88-inch soft top of The Living Daylights' pre-title Gibraltar chase (1987) — the munitions truck Bond drops onto through its canvas roof before it goes over the cliff — shown here as the film crew rigged it, with a scaffold camera platform cantilevered over the front wing and a plank clamped along the tub side for the camera team.
Factory colours
- Deep Bronze Green
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
History
The Living Daylights opens with a Double-O training exercise on the Rock of Gibraltar that turns real when an assassin starts killing the agents. Bond (Timothy Dalton, in his first outing) chases the killer, who has taken a British Army Land Rover loaded with explosives, drops from a cliff onto its canvas roof, cuts his way inside and fights him as the vehicle careers down the Rock's roads; the Land Rover goes over the edge and explodes, and Bond escapes by parachute onto a passing yacht. The Land Rover was a Series III 88-inch soft top in deep bronze green with a khaki tilt — the standard British Army light truck of the day, as the story required.
The queue's photograph, from James Bond Lifestyle, shows the vehicle between takes with the camera rig on it: a scaffold platform cantilevered over the left front wing and bumper carrying the camera and its operator, a plank clamped with G-clamps along the left side of the tub for the crew, and yellow ratchet straps holding everything down — the same 88 that appears on screen, dressed for filming rather than for the Army. That is the vehicle modelled here, camera platform and plank included as the queue asked. How many Land Rovers Eon used for the sequence, and what became of them, is not stated in the source.
Imagery
Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Land Rover; camera rig by the film's crew (Eon Productions)
- Manufactured
- Series III 88 soft top; filmed 1986–87 for The Living Daylights (1987)
- Engine type
- Series III 2.25 L four (petrol or diesel), not stated
- Production run
- Unknown — the film's picture car(s)
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Operated in
- United Kingdom
- Status
- unknown
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Model line
- Series III
- Wheels
- 4
- Nominal wheelbase
- 88″
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- Land Rover Series III — The Living Daylights (Gibraltar chase; photograph of the camera-rigged Series III with Timothy Dalton) ↗ — James Bond Lifestyle (accessed 2026-09-11)
Catalogue references
- https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/land-rover-series-iii https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/land-rover-series-iii ↗
Registry record updated 2026-09-11T07:06:47.233Z · status: researched