It was a dark and stormy night, and I had stalled out in a snowdrift near Greer, Arizona. I slept in the back of my VW Beetle in relative comfort. I am 5' 11". It was a lot better than trying to dig a snow cave....

I seem to notice a pattern of people that have owned VW Beetles needing to sleep in them at one point or another....remind me to never buy a bug.

A lesson learned vicariously through a friend: don't make the bed in the back of your van a waterbed, particularly if your going to forget than throw something with an edge onto it.

When I was younger, I owned a VW bug. Like some here, I had to spend a few nights in it and it is not something that I would want to contemplate again...

Nowadays, the SUV makes an adequate overnight bed. Once the back seat is folded down, there is just enough room for 2 people to sleep side by side. With sleeping pads and sleeping bags, it is not too bad of a sleep and sure beats having to setup a tent when it is wet and dark out...

If you own any car and drive long distances, you will eventually sleep in it, especially if your destinations are fairly wild places. You are probably dealing with a generation for whom the Beetle was their starter vehicle. I remember mine with fondness; it was economical, very good on back country roads, and mine would actually float for brief periods when fording streams.

I do know this, if you cut the roof off a BUG it will fold when you open the doors We had the jack it up and weld the doors shut, that was 20 years ago, we learned what a "unibody" was. Also, was not good at high speed hydroplaning over water, sank fairly fast.

Ironwood

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