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Apr 28, 2017 21:57:35 GMT
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I was going to reply but BenzBoy pretty much summed up what I was going to say but better. If it comes to it, a Volvo 740 estate sleeps 2 in the back comfortably. In road trip situations you may find the back full of stuff, so you end up leaving it there and just winding the front seats back instead of transfering it all to the front for the night. Or at least I did with a mate in Europe years back....
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Looks pretty comfy! that was the TG Africa special. I have had a double airbed in the back of a discovery many times although it was really comfy, it gets cold and the light gets annoying.
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Last Edit: Apr 29, 2017 9:00:10 GMT by grahamk
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Apr 29, 2017 11:37:11 GMT
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I've only ever done it when I've been to events and festivals but I'm only 5.7" So can manage,I keep a sleeping bag in the boot of the civic occasionally have a 30-40 min nap of I've missed sleep on a night shift
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VW nut 1984 MK2 golf type 19e
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Apr 30, 2017 17:43:10 GMT
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I lived in my XC falcon for between 4-5 months, while I explored Oz, back at the start of the 90's. I kitted it out well though - air bed, sleeping bag, curtains & mozzie screens. To be honest, the sleep quality varied greatly. While in QLD, NT, the nights were so hot, that sleep was hard to get. On the other hand, when travelling between Melbourne - Sydney (via Canberra), the overnighting was hideously cold - to the point of running the car to get the heater working. Ice on the inside of the windows & still being frozen - to the point of pain. I ended up getting driving to take my mind off my damned cold body & arriving in Canberra in the early hours of a Sunday morning - in winter - not something to recommend !!! Ah, memories..... L But, this was all done voluntarily. And when I was a lot younger. If life has dealt you a poor hand - I truly hope you manage to find a way out of your situation, as I don't believe doing it in Britain, now, will be a big bundle of fun.
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Apr 30, 2017 18:18:49 GMT
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I've slept in my cars a few times on road trips. My old MK3 Golf slept two of us after a night out in Brighton a couple of times. Being 6ft 2", I woke up with extreme cramp with the back seats folded down.
Three of us slept in an old Peugeot 106 in a car park in Holland once. We decided to slum it out and sleep in the driver's, passenger's and the back seats. We coped, but it wasn't a good night! Thank god it was a guarded and lit underground car park though, so we didn't freeze to death!
We recently slept in my old '02 Corolla, which wasn't incredibly comfy in the Heathrow long stay car park. The seats were great, but lots of cramp in our knees and shins.
We might try the Saab sometime soon though with an inflatable mattress...
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Project - 1990 Trabant 601 Daily - 2006 Saab 93
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Danny
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Went to a show this weekend and the airbed in my estate went down a treat The teardrop on the back was my mates I just towed it for him..
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Last Edit: May 1, 2017 19:37:05 GMT by Danny
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slater
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Sleeping/living in your carslater
@slater
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Done it for years. Must have slept well over 100 nights in a car over the last 10 years or so. Started off with sleeping in front seats, my metro wasn't so great but rover 213s are really comfy ex. girlfriend genuinely loved it. Once I got an estate I never did that again tho. Its more of a privacy thing than comfort. If no one knows your in there you don't get hassle.
With the estates you can fold the seats down and leave the parcel shelf in. Head goes at the boot end and people can hardly see you are in there unless they really look hard, just looks like a car full of junk. It helps to keep the sunlight off you in the summer and if it's a solid parcel shelf you can stick your curse word on it that would usually be in the boot too!
I've slept all over the place like that. Town centers after nights out and out in the middle of nowhere on roadtrips. I have no idea how people afford to go on holiday for a week and stay in a hotel every night. No wonder people end up homeless!
But yeh. Get an estate, sleep under the parcel shelf pretty much anywhere. Try to avoid nosey neighborhoods. Self inflating mattress is good enough, if your cold in winter you need a better bag. Car is a good shelter really! Just go to any free parking are in London and you will see loads of people actually living in cars.
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Danny , that looks very comfy - nice touch with the TV! Years ago I used to borrow the Marina van from my friend's garage and use that to go to Mini shows etc. Slept in the back ok, and the van was better for carting home any spares I bought at the shows. Have to agree that Mk2 Golfs are not comfy to kip in for even 1 night. Best one had to be my friend's Citroen DS Safari estate - that was a fine conveyance to sleep in as we travelled round France.
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Last Edit: May 2, 2017 15:54:07 GMT by Morris63: Wrong Danny!
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Ive slept in a van.......
About 10 years ago did a bit of travelling with a girl around Australia, we did the Great Ocean Road and a few scenic bits and i was dropping her to Sydney airport as we were travelling from Adelaide. As you do. Anyway money was a bit tight so we were kipping the nights away in a makeshift bed in the back of my toyota liteace over the course of a week or so.
We stopped in some properly backwards villages, the type of places where the pool players would stop, the jukebox would go off and the barman stopped serving as you walked in the door. Anyway i dropped her off, she grabbed her luggage, we said our goodbyes and off she went.
Now like i say being a poor traveller, money was a bit tight, I'm on my own and ive got a good 5/600 mile journey back to Adelaide. So i fill up the old van with fuel, spend my last bit of money on bread and butter and off i go. Into the wilderness. Instead of going the coast roads i decided id cut right across the centre of australia, across a barren waste ground called the Hay Plain. Look it up on youtube.
Its very hard to comprehend the sheer desolation and nothingness around. Its also incredibly dusty and in some places just a dirt track. But its quicker than the coast road i tell myself, and therefore cheaper. Anyway i must have been travelling a good 10 hours, dangerously slipstreaming the various road trains far too closely to save on fuel when i was running a bit tired. I pulled over to set myself up for the night in yet another backwards town where the people are going to kill me and my body will never be found.
Hang on a minute, the rear hatch of the van isnt shut properly. Hang on a sodding minute. The back of the van is FULL of dust. Hang on a, why is the coolbox upside down!,!!!
Why has the butter came out of the coolbox, melted into an olympic sized congealed pool the width of the van, which has then attracted a mountain of road dust.......
Which has then covered MY BED!!!!
Why?,!!
Where did my life go so wrong???
In the end i was far too shattered to care, there was nowhere else to go in the van, so i slept in the whole mess.
And had a wash in a lake the following morning which quite possibly had alligators in it that would have perhaps loved to chew a buttered Eddie down for breakfast.
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Thanks for the many replies and PM's on here, really appreciate it 👊🏻
This wasn't about kipping in your car at a show this would have been a fixture for a few weeks but things are now sorted out and I'm back home thankfully
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Goafer
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I've done it a few times.
First couple of times was when I lived with my parents and my Dad snored something fierce. I went and slept in the car, which would have been either my MK2 Golf or MK2 Scirocco. Neither are comfortable.
The next time, me and some friends went on a road trip and we couldn't find a campsite or hotel that would accommodate a group of lads at short notice. So we slept in our cars in a layby. Good news, I got my car to myself. Bad news, it was a 2nd Gen MR2. Slept pretty much upright, but actually slept quite well all considered.
The final time was when I went on an impromptu road trip in my Polo. Hotels wanted extortionate amounts for last minute bookings, so I slept in the car. I was a bit older and a bit more weary, so I drove around for ages trying to find a decent place to park up. Ended up on a village road just outside a farm, which I only found out the next day due to being woken up stupidly early by the farmer's quad bike going past.
My advice from my limited time sleeping in smaller cars: A reclined passenger seat is better than curling up in a back seat. It gets bloody cold. It gets bloody damp. If you're anything like me, you'll worry about your surroundings more than you should.
At my old work place, we had someone sleeping in the car park in their car. They didn't work there, he just used the car park as it was out of the way and reasonably private. He was from Portugal I think, and was living over here super cheap so he could send money back to his family. The owner of the company knew about it and let him carry on, as he was a super nice guy and wasn't causing any trouble. He used the local gym for showers etc and had a little generator, which powered a small TV and Playstation in the car. I can't remember how long he did that for, but it was quite a long time. Possibly a year or so. He may still do it and just found a better location, all I know is he stopped using our car park.
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Classic Saab 900 is the car todo this in.
Has a very long flat boot with the rear seats folded down - I'm 5'11 and fit fine.
My girlfriend and I did this last summer all over Cornwall / Devon and it was great.
Took a big duvet and a roll out mattress, slept like babies.
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andyborris
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Final word (perhaps!)
Quote from somewhere: " You can sleep in your car, you can't race your house".
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I've slept in cars twice - first time was about three years ago in Germany when a cockup with a hotel booking meant there was no other option, so me and a colleague spent the night in the front seats of our Citroen C3 hire car, with only raincoats to sleep under. Would not recommend.
The other time was at Silverstone last year when I was part of the commentary team for a 24-hour race, figured I was only going to be away from the commentary box/pitlane for a short time during the night so decided to sleep in my Focus instead of going out to a hotel. Parked a short distance away from the track behind an empty grandstand, reclined the passenger seat, cracked a window open and wrapped a sleeping bag round myself. Still didn't sleep.
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Cramped. Noisy. Bright in the early hours in summer. Cold at night. Freezing cold in winter. Things jabbing into your soft bits. Things jabbing into your not so soft bits. The general public in any form. Miserable.
Definitely to be avoided if you're over 40.
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Sleeping/living in your carfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
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What a cool topic! I made my dad make a bed in the back of a car. It was a place for luggage, but I said that my sister and I would be extremely happy to have some kind of bed-like space. Slept well there until one incident happened with a snake. That wasn't a snake!
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What a cool topic! I made my dad make a bed in the back of a car. It was a place for luggage, but I said that my sister and I would be extremely happy to have some kind of bed-like space. Slept well there until one incident happened with a snake. That wasn't a snake! Del? Why did you kiss my ear? Why are you holding my hand? Where's your OTHER hand? Between two pillows... Those aren't pillows! Aaaaaahhh!
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Four students, went for a week at Oktoberfest.
Travelled there and slept in a Beetle...four of us! To be fair it wasn't too bad as we were too drunk to feel uncomfortable.
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dacca
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Jul 24, 2020 13:25:47 GMT
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Done this for six months in a lupo Mon to Fri as moved to wales but still worked in england lucky I found a job in the end o and I'm 6'2 and was from Oct but it wasn't to bad
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Jul 24, 2020 13:50:41 GMT
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Slept in the truck this morning, snug as a bug in a rug. Slept in my Sierra estate in the 80’s Sleep in my V70 on occasion
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Bicycle x1 Alfa Giulietta (now wife's) Alfa 156 BMW 630i Honda rc36
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