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.

Bruce Compton hopes to buy a rare German Hetzer tank from Russian oligarch Slava, who will need some persuading.

Bruce Compton hopes to make some money selling props to Hollywood producers who require genuine military vehicles for a movie shoot.

Military equipment collector Bruce Compton recreates a D-Day parachute jump in a genuine Second World War uniform.

Military equipment collector Bruce Compton visits Germany, where he discovers a nuclear core from a secret Nazi weapon-testing factory.

Bruce Compton hopes to make a handsome profit by selling some of the long-forgotten treasures that lie around his cluttered warehouse.