NAMED MODELSpecial · Expedition & CampersUnited Kingdom
Carawagon Safari.
The Carawagon Safari, R.J. Searle's short-wheelbase camper conversion of the 88-inch three-door Land Rover: no elevating roof was offered, the conversion instead removing the bulkhead and fitting seats that fold into twin beds, curtains, a removable rear table and a cooker on the rear door.
BASE VEHICLESeries II 88″CONVERTERSearle Ltd (Carawagon)IN SERVICE1968–71OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONBuilt to orderLAYOUT4 wheels · 88″
The record
Alongside the Model 80 on the 109 hard top, the Continental on the five-door station wagon and the Model 100 on the Range Rover, Searle's Carawagon range included the Safari on the short-wheelbase 88-inch three-door. expeditionlandrover.info's Carawagon page notes that no pop-up roof was available for the Safari, which makes survivors hard to identify in the field: the conversion was all inside, with the bulkhead behind the seats removed, opposing rear bench seats that folded down into twin beds, under-seat storage, a removable rear table, privacy curtains for every window and a cooker that folded up on the rear door. The factory specification brochure survives as a scan on the site.
The registry's model, as directed, is a limestone Series IIA 88 station wagon with curtained rear windows and a roof rack of touring kit that drops as cargo in the game; no photograph of a Safari was available, so the exterior is the standard 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.
Variants & colours
Factory colours
Limestone
Marine Blue
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
Renders & references
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Where it was
GB United Kingdom1970–1975
ConvertedR. J. Searle Ltd, Sunbury-on-ThamesUnited Kingdom · 1970–197251.41, -0.41