Carawagon Safari

History

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.

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Series IIA 88-inch station wagon) with Searle conversion

Manufactured

Series II / IIA Carawagon era

Modifier / coachbuilder

Searle Ltd (Carawagon) ↗

R.J. Searle Ltd (Carawagon Safari)

Engine type

Rover 2.25 L four-cylinder petrol

Production run

Production conversion; count unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

United Kingdom

Status

unknown

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Series IIA

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

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.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• Carawagons ↗ — expeditionlandrover.info (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Carawagons.htm http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/Carawagons.htm ↗