DIFFLOCKEDTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1960–71
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.

Drive it in the gameSources & evidence
Carawagon Safari — front three-quarter render
BASE VEHICLESeries II 88″CONVERTERSearle Ltd (Carawagon)IN SERVICE1960–71OPERATED INUnited KingdomPRODUCTIONProduction conversionLAYOUT4 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.

Specification

MANUFACTURERLand Rover (Series IIA 88-inch station wagon) with Searle conversion
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERSearle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗
R.J. Searle Ltd (Carawagon Safari)
MANUFACTUREDSeries II / IIA Carawagon era
ENGINERover 2.25 L four-cylinder petrol
PRODUCTION RUNProduction conversion; count unknown
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INUnited Kingdom
STATUSunknown
ROOFNo elevating roof offered
INTERIORBulkhead removed, seats folding into twin beds, rear table, rear-door cooker, curtains
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINESeries IIA
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE88″
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 2026-09-11T16:46:05.691Z · status: researched