DIFFLOCKEDTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1971–85
NAMED MODELSpecial · Expedition & CampersUnited Kingdom

Carawagon Continental.

The Carawagon Continental — R.J. Searle's camper conversion of the five-door 109 station wagon with the folding wood-and-metal elevating roof, roof rack and a rear tent annexe pitched against the tailgate.

Drive it in the gameSources & evidence
Carawagon Continental — front three-quarter view, registry 3D render
BASE VEHICLESeries III 109″CONVERTERSearle Ltd (Carawagon)IN SERVICE1971–85OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONProduction conversionLAYOUT4 wheels · 109″

The record

R.J. Searle Ltd of Sunbury-on-Thames built Carawagon camper conversions on Land Rovers from the late 1950s, and the Continental was the version based on the factory five-door 109 station wagon rather than the hard top: the roof was cut and replaced with Searle's folding elevating roof of wood and metal, raised on struts at camp to give standing headroom and berths, with a kitchen unit, seats converting to beds and, on the Continental, a rear annexe tent that zipped to the tailgate to double the living space. expeditionlandrover.info's Carawagon page illustrates it with a Series III example in grey under a full-length roof rack with its tan and orange annexe erected.

The registry's model is a Series III 109 station wagon in sage grey with the elevating roof closed under the rack; the annexe appears only in the registry's showcase renders.

Specification

MANUFACTURERSearle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗
Land Rover (Series III 109-inch station wagon) with Searle Carawagon conversion
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERSearle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗
R.J. Searle Ltd (Carawagon Continental)
MANUFACTUREDSeries III Carawagon production
ENGINERover 2.25 L four-cylinder petrol
PRODUCTION RUNProduction conversion; count unknown
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSunknown
ROOFFolding wood-and-metal elevating roof
ANNEXERear tent annexe zipped to the tailgate
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries III
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE109″
CATEGORYSpecial · Expedition & Campers

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.

AI rendering impression

An AI rendering impression starts from the registry's own 3D model of this vehicle, which an image model then paints into a scene. It is an artist's impression of the type, made to give a feel for the vehicle in its element — not a photograph, and not a record of any particular vehicle.

Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the registry's 3D renders, the specification and the cited sources on this page.

Where it was

GB United Kingdom1971–1985
  1. ConvertedR. J. Searle Ltd, Sunbury-on-ThamesUnited Kingdom · 1971–198551.41, -0.41

Sources

  1. 1Carawagons ↗expeditionlandrover.info · accessed 2026-09-11SOURCE
  2. 2http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Carawagons.htmhttp://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Carawagons.htm ↗REFERENCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-16T05:55:32.069Z · status: researched