Special Santana 2000 forward-control vehicles of the Guardia Civil fitted with box bodies, armoured side doors and full-length bench seats so that crews could return fire on terrorist attacks while the vehicle was moving, used on road blocks and patrols in the Basque Country during the ETA campaign.
BASE VEHICLESantana 2000 FCBUILT BYSantana Motor (Metalúrgica de Santa Ana)IN SERVICE1978–90OPERATED INSpainPRODUCTIONSmall batchLAYOUT4 wheels
The record
Garaje Siberia's history of the Guardia Civil's Land Rovers records that, alongside the ordinary Santana fleet, the force took a number of Santana 2000 forward controls specially fitted for the anti-terrorist campaign of the 1970s and 1980s: a box body behind the cab with an armoured side door pierced by vision ports, and full-length bench seats along the walls so that a squad could sit facing outward, weapons ready, and return fire on the move if the vehicle was attacked. The photograph shows one at a road block on the Basque coast beside a BMR armoured car. Numbers built are not recorded.
The registry's model is a dark green Santana 2000 forward control with the box body, armoured side door with ports and roof ventilator; in the game it is bullet-proof and fires from its crew compartment.
BODYBox body with armoured side door and vision ports
CREWFull-length bench seats for a squad returning fire on the move
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESantana 2000 FC
WHEELS4
CATEGORYSpecial · Police, Military · Spain
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.
Imagery
No published image yetA rendering impression or a free-licence photograph will appear here once one is published — the sources below link to photographs elsewhere
Where it was
ES Spain1980–1998 · Guardia Civil Grupo Antiterrorista Rural, Basque Country
