Ok, it's been months, but I still have not changed my mind. Things are kicking off now though, starting tonight, but will begin tomorrow in earnest. Tonight is mostly last minute planning.
In case anyone is wondering, this is what I will be using to convert into like a... camper car:
Yeah, I know. It's a Prius C. They are tiny, even by car standards... and their engines are weak, which means I have to be very careful about how much weight I add into my build.
To recap, if this somehow works, I get to start a new chapter of my life. If it doesn't, I still have a decent commuter car.
So yeah, this is going to be an interesting challenge....
Time to get this show on the road
March 17th, 2017 at 05:52 am
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March 17th, 2017 at 08:34 pm 1489782864
LAL, just wait until I actually post about the inside. Then you're really going to want to call the men in white suits with the nets.
CLL, you are correct on both points. The final decision to use this car was basically because this is already the car I am currently driving. Yeah, this is my regular car. I had looked, very... very closely for a better vehicle, but at the end of the day, just balked about trading this otherwise decent car for another one, and losing thousands of dollars in the process.
Shower is to be through a gym membership, or even at my parents' house when I am in town.
Meals, I intend to cook "at home", and will get further into that in later posts. For now though, I admit I am eating out quite a bit, although I also go to the grocery store more often. There are plenty of pre-made or even easy to assemble meals (such as salads) from the grocery store. So I will do that. Once my cooking station is complete, I would've love to hit the Farmer's Market more often as well, and just cook from there haha.
Come on now, what's life without a little bit of crazy eh?
March 17th, 2017 at 08:54 pm 1489784056
March 23rd, 2017 at 11:43 am 1490269393
It seems you would have to eat out a lot as there's hardly any room with the bed in there for other possessions, like clothes, let alone food or food prep stuff. Unless you could carry some sort of camper storage box on the top of car?
I know you can do it, but are you planning for this to be a long term thing? I remember a middle-aged woman I met in 2010 when I was hired for a 4 month contract job at large insurance company. She was hired (contract) at the same time and we got to know each other when we would occasionally walk during our lunch break.
She told me she had lived out of her car for about a year, all the while working at contract jobs, which surprised me and made me wonder how she managed to show up for work in presentable condition, but she did say she showered at her gym, for one. Not sure about wrinkly clothes though.
March 23rd, 2017 at 06:30 pm 1490293810
As for wrinkly clothes, it's usually alleviated by hanging clothes in the car somehow. If you don't have a lot, the emergency handles are fine, but you can also buy and install clothes hanging bars designed specifically for cars. Now, I admit things are more complicated when you talk about camper builds, but it is not impossible. This is something that I will work out later as well, when I get to that point.