I was thinking, if your small enough of course, curling up in the fetal position on the pass. Side floor board and using a pillow in the pass. Seat and snoozing away. You won't care how uncomfortable you are if you're dead-ass tired as long as you can lay down and lay your head down. The wake up stretch ain't happenin sleeping this way of course
Originally posted by americasfuture2k: curling up in the fetal position on the pass. Side floor board and using the pass. Seat as a pillow and snoozing away.
I have done exactly this many times. Of course that was long ago when i was much younger, much more flexible and didnt wake up with stiff sore joints but yeah it works.
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fierocarparts Member
Posts: 2552 From: Dallas-Fort Worth TEXAS Registered: Feb 2009
I've done it at road stops when I was too tired to continue driving. I try and lean my head on the center console as a pillow, with sweaters if available.
I'm 5'7" and I've never woken up from the Fiero without being sore...
Beats motels for a cheap student!
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Pyrthian Member
Posts: 29569 From: Detroit, MI Registered: Jul 2002
Can't say I've ever slept in a fiero, but my wife and I can't afford a hotel room for the Frazee trip this summer so we'll be sleeping in the car. Likely in the Frazee Auto Body parking lot. I may have better luck curling up on the rear decklid if the mosquito's aren't too bad. Looking forward to that!
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americasfuture2k Member
Posts: 7131 From: Edmond, Oklahoma Registered: Jan 2006
I've done it at road stops when I was too tired to continue driving. I try and lean my head on the center console as a pillow, with sweaters if available.
I'm 5'7" and I've never woken up from the Fiero without being sore...
Beats motels for a cheap student!
im a poor airman in the navy, soon to be a poor college student. yippie. so ill be sleeping like this on roadtrips in the fiero. i sould go and try to take a nap in the fiero like that while its up on stands awaiting its L67
Can't say I've ever slept in a fiero, but my wife and I can't afford a hotel room for the Frazee trip this summer so we'll be sleeping in the car. Likely in the Frazee Auto Body parking lot. I may have better luck curling up on the rear decklid if the mosquito's aren't too bad. Looking forward to that!
Mosquitos are MN state bird! 10,000 lakes and billions and billions of mosquitos.
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Isolde Member
Posts: 2504 From: North Logan, Utah, USA Registered: May 2008
I spent part of a night in my murci roadster replica on the way from new jersey to idaho. If you're tired enough you can do it. After that I bought a pop tent and air mattress.
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Posts: 5356 From: Wake Forest,NC,USA Registered: Jan 2002
Well, when I wrecked ltlfrari it was because I fell asleep so I guess that if I can be out of it doing 60 (not a good thing to do by the way), then you can sleep pretty much anywhere.
If you don't have a second, put the passenger seat a bit forward and lean it back... Crack the sunroof/windows and have a snooze. I'm 6ft and it works well enough...
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Posts: 11151 From: Surrounded by corn. Registered: Feb 2009
I am 6'4" and have the PERFECT solution! About ten years ago, a friend of mine and I took a 6 week road trip in my 88 all over the country. We slept in the Fiero almost every night. She slept in the driver seat (hehe). I slept in the passenger seat with my feet up on the instrument pod over the gauges; not too bad really!!!!
get a neck pillow, scooch the seat forward as far as possible, then tilt the seat back as much as possible - and zzzzzzzzzzzzz
but - yes - about as comfy as sleeping on an airplane......
That's how I did it, but I didn't have a pillow and regretted it. Though, If I remember correctly I didn't exactly plan on sleeping in my car. I had to go on the passenger side because I just couldn't get the steering wheel up out of the way enough.
I'm 6'2"
And that car top tent looks awesome! Though a bit pricey.
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You could just get a regular 2 man tent and sleep on the ground next to the parking lot. I am sure they would let you put up a tent if they will let you stay in the lot in your car. I have a 2 person similar to these and they pack up very small I am sure you would have room for it in the Fiero. It will be hot at night in the summer so you won’t need a heavy sleeping bag.
http://www.speedwaymotors.c...iler-Plans,2818.html plus this way you can make it lower , narrower, shorter, longer, whatever, and save an awful lot of $ on aluminum and labor. Plus put the axle whereever it gives you a Fiero-safe tongue weight, so long as the front half is more than half the total weight.
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Posts: 7131 From: Edmond, Oklahoma Registered: Jan 2006
I've done it at road stops when I was too tired to continue driving. I try and lean my head on the center console as a pillow, with sweaters if available.
I'm 5'7" and I've never woken up from the Fiero without being sore...
Beats motels for a cheap student!
Ive done it that way and couldn't move my neck afterward. Napping 'upright' ended up being the best ( or least bad ) for me.
Can't say I've ever slept in a fiero, but my wife and I can't afford a hotel room for the Frazee trip this summer so we'll be sleeping in the car. Likely in the Frazee Auto Body parking lot. I may have better luck curling up on the rear decklid if the mosquito's aren't too bad. Looking forward to that!
At least join us at a MFF members lakeside cabin close to Frazee. Sleeping is on your own but there is at least access to toilet and showers. Can you afford a small 2-person tent? See the Tyler Shipman Show thread for a few more details.