

| Subject: | Re: Pass front seat bed or other 3rd bed ideas? |
| From: | Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow |
| Date: | Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:55:33 -0700 |
A real family would just pile in the rear seat like a pack of sardines, with independent blankets rolled up like tacquitos, with a camel, two sheep, pigeons, a horse, and an ox in the floor space, and the sunroof open. But there are no real families in America. > On Apr 2, 2015, at 8:54 PM, Adam Butler <acbutler.dandy@ICLOUD.COM> wrote: > > There was a great tent system that has a clip in queen sized air mattress sized screen room, that I have seen before on one of the sites, it slips me at the moment. > > Adam > Austin > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Apr 2, 2015, at 22:27, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> 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 >>>
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