Cars as Alternative Hotels
Cars as Alternative Hotels
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goffahsez

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525 posts

195 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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So I'm out at a family party sunday evening/night, and things are fine and dandy. Ordina I would choose to drive home from such an event, but on this occassion I have opted to have a good drink up and crash the night!
So anyways, as family do's go, an argument started up at the end of the night and I ended up resorting to my car for accomodation. Trouble is, I had my girlfriend with me.
Needless to say she was alloud to have the back seats and I ended up in the rear footwell. She had a good nights sleep, whereas I ended up tossing and turning trying to take turns on numbing each ass cheek.

Question is, if you've had to stay in your car, what car is it? and how was your nights sleep?

If you feel like it, why did you end up staying in your car?


Mine was a Renault megane

EDLT

15,421 posts

235 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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You could have been charged with drink driving, maybe you should use a bus shelter next time. wink

mat13

1,977 posts

210 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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406 coupe, back seats laid flat and legs into the boot, very comfy.

Landrover series 3, had to lay across the front seats and hang my feet out of the window, not so comfortable.

goffahsez

Original Poster:

525 posts

195 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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mat13 said:
406 coupe, back seats laid flat and legs into the boot, very comfy.

Landrover series 3, had to lay across the front seats and hang my feet out of the window, not so comfortable.
Like your style!


The drink driving thought did cross my mind, so in my drunken state I thought it'd be a cracking idea to hide the key inside the back alloy! Is that still illegal?

fatwomble

1,389 posts

243 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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VW Camper (I suspect this may be cheating)

RacingPete

9,197 posts

233 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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At a race meeting I turned up pretty late so couldn't be bothered to pitch the tent and stayed in my tow vehicle a Ford S-Max. Would have been fine if it wasn't fully loaded, so stayed in the back, still pretty uncomfortable!

bazking69

8,620 posts

219 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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Taxis. Wonderful things!!

As a kid I've slept in my car a few times. I'm a big bloke and it was a Vauxhall Nova! And it wasn't comfortable.

richyb

4,615 posts

239 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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Slept in the back of the 740iL once. Very comfy actually.

Big Rod

6,265 posts

245 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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Have slept in MKIV Cortina, Montego, Carlton and Omega. All estate cars mind, so was able to stretch out quite happily although the surface was a bit firm.

Did go and get giggidy in a Cavalier hatch with a girl on an impromptu drive up the west coast of Scotland one night. Not so comfy!! frown

koolchris99

12,518 posts

208 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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I've slept in my car many times,

metro front seat, not bad, bit st
metro boot with seats flat, better but could lie flat out
golf front, pretty good.
golf boot, very comfy, lie diagonal
fiat ulysee thing, double mattress. like bed.

z4, really st

entwisi

728 posts

220 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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1963 Mk3 Ford Zephyr...... fell asleep across the front Bench seat when cuddling up to then GF outside her parents house, We woke at 5:30 when the milkman clattered past the window.

Same car out chasing teh RAC rally with a mate, he had teh back seat I had the front, it had a VERY comfy set of seats

also

Mk3 Cavalier when driving down to South of France to see my sis on teh cheap, just set the seats back and snoozed.


David87

7,021 posts

241 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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My mate and I created the FiestaBed after a drunken party. This involved unscrewing the rear bench and laying it flat across the footwell (only takes a couple of minutes) and then folding the rear backrest down, creating a pretty much flat area all the way from the back of the front seats to the boot lid. Pretty damn comfortable and perfect for those nights of fondling between teenagers (not my mate and Ihehe). I can also confirm it works with Saxos.

Puddenchucker

5,850 posts

247 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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As a student, after several beers, in a Vauxhall Cavalier.

I'd fully expected to have too much to drink to be safe/legal to drive, so I'd parked the car in a secluded spot of a private car park and had a sleeping bag. So at about midnight, when I got back to the car, I reclined the passenger seat, opened the windows by about 10mm (it was a warm summers night), got into the sleeping bag and had a good nights sleep.

beebs90

169 posts

212 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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ive had a little test run in my ford cougar coupe, the front seats are very confy and plenty of room once its reclined. The boot is more then big enough once the back seats are folded so i can put the air bed in. be putting it all to the test this weekend and then doing it properly when take a road trip to France, (im not cheap at all hehe)

MikeDH

2,422 posts

245 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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Only slept in a car once, Renault Clio after a few too many. Woke up feeling crap, funnily enough.

Tried in my old Focus, and also work Mondeo Estate. The Mondeo was comfortable enough, the Focus wasn't, but couldn't sleep in either, despite being knackered!

pugwash4x4

7,679 posts

250 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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frequently used to sleep in cars when going to friends houses for parties as a teenager- better than floors/crappy tents.

Worst was a 990cc fiesta poplar which has veryvery uncomfortable. Best was an old landcruiser- snuggly warm, really large, and surprisingly deep pile carpets.

Gad-Westy

16,571 posts

242 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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Have slept in a few cars over the years. Boot of a mk2 polo in the peak district in freezing weather was one of the longest nights of my life. Also kipped in my Elise which was less uncomfortable than you might imagine.

Med1c

1,127 posts

225 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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Cherokee jeep . Slept in it while house hunting many years back . Those seats were actually really comfy .

lazy_b

392 posts

265 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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My wife and I once spent a night sleeping not very well in a hire car (Renault Megane) in the Marina car park at Puerto Pollensa, Majorca.

We turned up late at night (by prior arrangement) at our rental villa, only to find the keys (a) not where they should have been, and (b) nowhere to be found in the dark with only the aid of a small torch. The local agents for the villa had switched their phone to an answering machine.

Never again!

ooo000ooo

2,646 posts

223 months

Tuesday 31st August 2010
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Toyota Celica (last of the pop up headlight models), thought i'd be smart and fold the back seats down and take advantage of the boot space leaving my mate the drivers seat. Middle of the night, after a feed of drink, i took cramp in my leg. Couldn't get it straightened out or find anything to push it against to get rid of the cramp. Had to suffer in silence as my mate threatened to knock me out if i didn't stop moaning like a big jessie smile Half hour after the cramp went i'd a bad case of indigestion. Not the best nights sleep i've ever had.