Blackout Curtains idea on Youtube

[bobbert]

<div><a href="" target="_blank">Living In A Vehicle: Window Privacy Daytime</a></div><div><br></div><div>This dude bought some black fabric, hitched it up with clips, &amp; voila-instant WINDOW BLACKOUT.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>

 

[VanTrekker]

<p>Blackout curtains work great.&nbsp; I bought some pieces at Walmart and have them held to the steel window frames with small magnets.&nbsp;&nbsp; Blackout is a must have...</p>

 

[Ricekila]

I'd like to know where on Fantasy Island he parks at night <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/rolleyes.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br><br>"All police" - when they notice a blacked out passenger vehicle -- should check it out <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/eek.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br><br>A work looking van or truck usually will have heavily tinted glass to keep the Zombie's from seeing tools and material's - and the cop's know this <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/wink.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br>

 

[SoulRaven]

Remember one thing... not everyone is hiding out in a city, there are many different types of vandwellers, from city stealth dwellers to those that go deep into the forest land... Me right now i am parked miles from a city in the desert and less the sun in the AM could care lees about privacy... just a heads up...<br><br>

I'd like to know where on Fantasy Island he parks at night <img src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/rolleyes.gif" align="absMiddle" border="0" height="15" width="15">

 

[VanTrekker]

<p>I would agree on a passenger car... My cargo van has fairly deeply tinted back windows.&nbsp; It's pretty difficult to tell that there is a curtain on the inside, particularly at night.&nbsp; </p>

 

[bobbert]

Personally, I would have my Chevy HHR Station Wagon rear door &amp; quarter panel windows tinted a little darker, then add the curtain for safe measure. I have rope lites that would be attached to the ceiling. They are really bright too. The original Youtube video author described a similar lighting set up in his SUV, hence, the very reason why he put up a black out curtain.<div>Besides that, the LEOS would look in the vehicle anyway, even after knocking on your window at 3:00 a.m. regardless of a curtain being in there or not.&nbsp;</div><div>Passersby would prolly think it's just a dark-tinted window anyway &amp; would likely not even see anything.</div>

 

[Ricekila]

Isnt a HHR just a wee-bit small <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/rolleyes.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br><br>I would have to step out of it --- just to change my mind <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/crazy.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br>

 

[bobbert]

Look, there are members on this forum that live compact cars, & are doing it quite successfully. One member named Ash, aka Butternut, has been in a VW Jetta. Sure, a Chevy HHR might not be as large as someone elses van, but it can be used just as well as a VW.

 

[Ricekila]

<P>I understand that ---- for my fat ass -- it would be a little crampted <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/wink.gif" align=absMiddle border=0></P>

 

[bobbert]

Lol... Well, from the looks of your avatar pic, you don't look obese to me!
One thing I love about my Chevy, is that the front seat can fold face down. I can scoot to the passenger seat & slide on back to the rear. I was able to master it in about the first try. Some passenger cars don't have front seats that fold completely flat & that would make it really tuff to slide to the back of the car.
Ultimately I would've loved to have the HHR panel wagon, but they are no longer made. Good stealth potential. Good gas mileage. 63 cubic feet of space in rear, with 38" room floor to ceiling. 39" between wheelwells.

 

[Ricekila]

"Thank's" --- I think <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/eek.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br><br>Where I come from --- 6' and 250 lbs. is a little pudgy <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/rofl.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br><br>But if I had to --- I'd live in my old Chevy Vega - with all my crap jammed in it -- with one of those aerodynamic car top carriers on top and sleep in that - like the coffin they shot Spock into space with

<br><br>No need to be so defensive --- <IMG src="https://vanlivingforum.com/images/boards/smilies/wave.gif" align=absMiddle border=0><br>

 

[bobbert]

Yeah, 6'x250 lbs would be a lil' ruff to scoot around in a station wagon.
Was your Vega a wagon?

 

[Ricekila]

Hatch back with a 283 shoe-horned into it

<br><br>It was so cramped in there -- I had to lean out the window -- to shift gears

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[bobbert]

I had a buddy in highschool that owned one. Fast car for what it was worth! His smoked like a demon (both tires & engine oil)!!!

 

[Ricekila]

<P>Fred -- is that you

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