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 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.

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 2026-09-11T16:35:30.018Z · status: researched