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Subject:Re: Pass front seat bed or other 3rd bed ideas?
From:Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow
Date:Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:19:30 -0700

Sounds like you need a poptop.

Course then you're not stealth.

What about a hammock behind the front seats?

> On 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