So after losing my car in the middle of nowhere, where there is no greyhound, no train station, no airport... not even car rental who would pick me up, I had to hire a friend to come pick me up, that was not fun.
I started by taking down the back to the passenger seat and further took out the back to the seat behind the passenger seat, using an ice chest and some wooden board to bridge the gaps, with my feet sticking into the trunk, that was my first bed on wheels.
Soon after returning to Miami and having access to all the power tools at my dad's place, I started to build the second version of this construct, or maybe it was just the completion of the first version. The entire bed rides in a slight incline to the front as the seats are positioned in such way I could not get around. While this was comfortable and I made two trips coast to coast in this setup, it was nowhere near perfect, and the privacy aspect really suffered as my head was close to the front windshield.
In this setup I was able to drive around all the southern states heading in different routes from L.A. to Miami and back, these being my home stations, I just needed to figure out where to camp. I had so little experience at this stage I was afraid to sleep at rest areas most of the time.
The second setup removes the entire passenger seat base and build a pretty solid wooden box on the bottom the car in the front, with panels that are fixed or loose, the loose ones being the ones I use to access the storage under. This was much superior to the first build as I can lay leveled, and the low elevation of the bed provided much better privacy.
I drove through all 48 states in this setup, and it was wonderful.
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