Thread: sleeping in a disco

Hi Michelle, Is your disco a seven seat wagon or a five seater.
Mine is the former and I think they may be almost a foot longer.
Regards, Nick. (worane)

7 seats, I keep the dickie seats folded up (no use for them) and when I fold the 'back' seat up its around 140cm, im around 180 cm long. Was thinking Id get my old horserug maker to make a canvas thing that will attach to the roof bars via ropes, and have a corner tent pole roped to the ground, something to tie the door open with so it doesnt blow shut and shorten my length (though at least ill still fit in), and ill have an enclosed area at the back of the car, long enough to sleep in (with the simple fold out platform im planning0 and also stand up in comfortably for changing etc

No Michelle, you have it wrong. You build a platform that goes over the folded forward backs of the back seats.
The platform then runs from the closed back door to the backs of the front seats. That is how you get the room you need.
Just to reiterate, the back seat backs are the only folding you do. Not the second fold of the base. It stays in place.
If you look at the posts above you will see a platform..
Mine will be made of three sheets of ply one will stay permantly in place behind the rear seats with storage bins under it.
The other two sheets will run fore and aft with a hinge in the center and store, when not in use on top of the one in the rear compartment.
Michelle, email me at nviner@iinet.net.au and I will email you a photo or look up steve G further up this set of pages. His pics and info is what he passed on to me. Regards Nick.
The front two sheets do not need support as the sit on the top folded surface of the rear seats.
I hope this all makes some sense to you.

ah yep that makes more sense, the second motion for the folding is handy for bit of furniture moving or something but not sleep

I used to have that in my D1, as it had a platform over the lpg tank, its just that these seats dont seem to sit down quite as nicefolded in half as the d1s did
below is how i had the d1,

Isn't it strange how every one has a tool box in a landy.
I have had and still have a Jeep J 20 for twenty years and I have never had nor needed a tool box in it. Not having one in my disco would feel like driving without my seat belt on.

Originally Posted by worane

Isn't it strange how every one has a tool box in a landy.
I have had and still have a Jeep J 20 for twenty years and I have never had nor needed a tool box in it. Not having one in my disco would feel like driving without my seat belt on.

Don't you take you Jeep out?

As for carrying a tool box in 'Fred', I have stopped doing that, it's a sure way to get to break down, best no tools at all and then you can travel anywhere with out any trouble.
Beside having to lump a dirty great big heavy tool box around the countryside, I always find that the tool I need, has been left at home.

I have been watching this thread for ideas about sleeping in a Disco and do like the idea of, the not having to climb a ladder when it's past my bed time.
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What you and your wife sleep in bunk beds Arthur?

had that toolbox in everything except the d2. Dad bought it for me for a birthday near when I got my first car (74 toyota crown). trailer plug adaptors, screwdrivers pliers whatever, nothing really useful and even if so Id not have known what to do with it). Clothes pegs (for propping open the crowns automatic choke so it would start), tiny shifter (to disconnect its battery when some power drain thing was going on), soap for handwashing when there was none in toilets,armour all, padlocks Id long lost keys for, mallet,hammer etc, nippers and wire for horse fence patchups....most the crap still in there thogh it now lives in the garage lol