Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:45:25 -0700
Reply-To: Jeff <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jeff <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A far-fetched possibility...Vanagon with pop-out?
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A simple version would be to copy the slide out beds used on tent trailers.
Open the rear hatch, slide your extend-o-bed out 3', attach the supports
from the bed frame to the bumper, put up your canvas supports and your done.
Quick "rear" bed while maintaining all your inside space..
Cheers,
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:00 AM
Subject: A far-fetched possibility...Vanagon with pop-out?
> This occured to me recently while on my bizarre long-mile/short-term
> daily commute. I can easily see my spring-time jobsite ( a new house,
> remember those?) from our porch..but it is across the Gorge, on the south
> side of the Columbia River in Oregon and I live on the Northshore, in
> Washington. My place and the jobsite are both about half-way between the
> nearest bridges across the Columbia, so getting over there by Vanagon is
> about 45minutes. Some 'idle time' to come up with hare-brained ideas
> like....
>
> Has anyone ever tried putting a 'pop-out' or tip-out or whatever the RV
> crowd calls those fancy slide out expanders that seem to be all the rage
> in
> motorhomes and 5th wheel trailers now a days? It'd be nice to maybe put
> something in the rear of the van...we have about 5' across, inside, now.
> A
> pop-out or maybe two, one each side, that let you sleep cross wise inside
> would be nice. Westies have that rear cabinet-box on the drivers side
> anyhow.
>
> I know, probably silly. But we do all kinds of really silly other stuff
> to campmobiles....Like those with the extra big full length+ plastic tubs
> on the tops of some American vans, the Adventure wagons with the very tall
> tops, the Westie pop up roof, the Alaskan telescoping slide-in truck bed
> campers, some of the 'expando' low-boy trail behind camping trailers...
>
> Just an idle idea, though I plan on taking a closer look at how the
> mechanisims work in motorhomes and trailers next time I get the chance..
>
> Don Hanson
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