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