On Thursday, April 2, 2015 9:19 PM, Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
   

 > are your front seat rotate?

> if so, 90° rotation facing each other and a piece of ply wood and you have
a bed
That would work up to about a 150cm person, just like the hammock I have in the picture. I'm looking for a solution for a taller person.

Martin

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca>
wrote:

> My daughter currently sleeps in a hammock across the front seats:
>
> http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jag/Pictures/1406GerSwedenSelect/IMG_20140605_074726_sm.JPG
> That works for a kid up to about 150cm.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions for how to create a longer 3rd bed up front?
>
> I saw a family who each night took out the passenger front seat and put in
> a plywood bed extending backwards partway across the sliding door. However,
> taking out the seat is tedious and creates a storage problem for it.
>
> If the back of the passenger seat could be made to fold all the way back
> flat I was thinking a small extension in the front could make it a bed. (Or
> swirvel the seat and make an extension towards the rear)
>
> Something like appears to have been done here in a small station wagon
> (Mini)
>
> http://caravanlounge.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/17d66970-d27c-0130-f62a-00163e2e85a5.jpg
>
> So would it be possible to modify the vanagon seat so it folds more than
> 30degrees? The cam mechanism looks non-trivial. Is the seatback tilting
> mechanism the same for 82-84 and 85+?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>