The first ever "Trailer Caravan" makes for perfect Revival lodgings

It’s the world’s first “trailer caravan” according to its inventor, Sherif El Sakkaf. It’s a caravan with space for a car…or if you prefer, a car trailer with living quarters. Either way, it’s tailor-made for the weekend racing driver. Which is no surprise because Sherif is racer himself.

He raced in Formula 3 against the likes of David Coulthard and has also competed in GT cars and the Vauxhall championship. In the early ‘90s he even worked as a race instructor with Peter Gethin here at Goodwood. 

“I am now in my 50s and thought I would take up clubman racing so I looked around for what I thought must exist: a small car trailer where I could sleep. Apart from the huge American trailers, I found that such a thing simply does not exist. So I designed and made my own.”

Called the Sherif and made in Switzerland, it’s a shiny, curvy caravan with windows and a door, all made of laser-cut aluminium panels on a proprietary flat-bed car trailer. One end opens up, ramps descend and an electric winch pulls your car inside. This version takes a car up to 4m but larger ones are available.

Once you arrive at the circuit and unload the car you can put up the fold-away double bed, dining table and chairs and relax with facilities that include heating and air-conditioning, sink with its own water tank, ice box and a little gas stove. It’s all rudimentary, especially the loo facilities, but arguably it’s all one or two people need over a racing weekend.

Sherif tells GRR he has sold one so far to a historic racer with a Mini – small enough for car and bed to be in there at the same time, so you really could sleep with your car.

Price?  £18,400 fully fitted out and ready to go but plus the VAT. For more, www.sherif2017.com

Photography by James Lynch