Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 23:34:46 -0500
Reply-To: Adam Butler <acbutler.dandy@ICLOUD.COM>
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From: Adam Butler <acbutler.dandy@ICLOUD.COM>
Subject: Re: Pass front seat bed or other 3rd bed ideas?
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Or a Rialta, the Rialta's have four different floor plans
Adam
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> On Apr 2, 2015, at 23:19, Mudd Not Jack Sparrow <rummaging@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> 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
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