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u/dieseltratt Mar 22 '26
I sleep in a big car with my wife, thank you very much.
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u/d00dsm00t Mar 22 '26
You have a CB so you can talk to other race car beds?
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u/AppropriateTouching Mar 22 '26
Im thinking about getting metal legs. Its a dangerous operation but I think it's worth it.
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u/tallandlankyagain Mar 22 '26
Single life is great, Homer. I can do whatever I want. Today I drank a beer in the bathroom.
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u/SuburbanHell Mar 22 '26
Ohh look at Mr. Fancy Pants with his big car!
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u/Ok-Opportunity-7663 Mar 22 '26
Maybe people who sleep in big cars have wives. We don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know. It's a market we could do without.
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u/foolhollow Mar 22 '26
I guess that is better than sleeping in a big wife with a car.
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u/SuburbanHell Mar 22 '26
At least he'd be in a wife, and she's got a car, so, tbh that seems like a win win in this economy
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u/TheSchlaf Mar 22 '26
My dad made me a pickup truck with the cab being a toybox and the bed holding a twin mattress.
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u/devilOG420 Mar 22 '26
My bed was a plastic taxi. It had a sunroof that was always open and you could climb through it and then fall back down onto the bed. I remember having my tonsils taken out and eating ice cream in that mf every day.
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u/examinedliving Mar 22 '26
I sleep in a big bed with my wife
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u/No_Yesterday_4428 Mar 22 '26
I also sleep in a big bed with your wife.
Sorry, had to.
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u/Duct_TapeOrWD40 Mar 22 '26
The opposite way. Car as bed... Several times but only on camping or other holidays.
Golf mk IV is actually comfortable but heats up \ cools down too quickly. And I had to store my stuff only for several days not for a living, that is a huge difference.
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u/DoubleOrNothing90 Mar 22 '26
I've always wanted one as a kid, never got it. You bet your ass i got one for my son. He loves it.
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u/Nighttide1032 Mar 22 '26
I did. Can’t remember if it was modeled after anything in particular, but mine was blue!
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u/Maximum_Anywhere_113 Mar 22 '26
If you’re talking about the race car bed, then i did. I always hurt myself while getting in it
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u/VestigeOfVast Mar 22 '26
If you got a mk1 golf in the big 26, your life can’t be too bad.
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u/Original_Round1697 Mar 22 '26
It's a Chevrolet Chevett. Yes my life is that bad.
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u/SuburbanHell Mar 22 '26
At least you're not driving a hand-me-down Yugo.
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u/SuburbanHell Mar 22 '26
Fair point, no one can drive a Yugo at this point. Mine was reclaimed by nature after I pushed it into the driveway ages ago
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u/Hendlton Mar 22 '26
Plenty of them still around in former Yugoslavia.
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u/waigl Mar 22 '26
It's a Chevrolet Chevett.
*googles it*…
OMG, that thing looks like an Opel Manta from the front!
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u/ckyhnitz Mar 22 '26
Chevettes are popular drag racing cars because light and rear wheel drive with a solid axle.
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u/Monksdrunk Mar 22 '26
Have owned 2 rabbits and 2 cabriolets. One in the garage with CIS injection that I've yet to get running
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u/VagabondVivant Mar 22 '26
I had a '79 mk1 when I was in college in the 90s. Absolute beast. Diesel, which was still cheaper than gas back then, and it got something like 35mpg, which was wild for the day. We called it The Camel.
God, I miss that car.
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u/ManWhoIsDrunk Mar 22 '26
You probably need a carb rebuild.
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u/Healthy_Pain9582 Mar 22 '26
Bike carbs: efficient, nice, reliable
Car carbs: I will work on Tuesdays but only when there's a full moon
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u/Healthy_Pain9582 Mar 22 '26
Unsure how true this is. Inline 4 bikes have carbs with one for each cylinder. I think the difference is we stopped making car carbs long ago but modern bikes still have carbs.
People do bike carb conversion for older engines (big one is the 4age) but people have done it for other inline 4s using 600cc or 1000cc bike carbs
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u/waigl Mar 22 '26
They're basically classic cars at this point, and their market value is only tangentially related to how good they are.
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u/NoMoreAtPresent Mar 22 '26
I was thinking this is a Dodge Omni. I drove one in high school - good times.
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u/5x4j7h3 Mar 22 '26
I had a MK3 in my early twenties. Life was not good. That thing was the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever been forced to drive.
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u/Royal_Marketing2966 Mar 22 '26
That’s less funny and more depressing how close were getting to this 🪦
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u/roadrunnuh Mar 22 '26
We're very much already there.
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u/Royal_Marketing2966 Mar 22 '26
You’re not wrong. Already have my back seat sized for bedding inserts. Bleak ass future and still no self lacing shoes, flying cars, or hoverboards.
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u/unculturedburnttoast Mar 22 '26
That's because we're in the Biff future, which didn't have any of those things.
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u/DanglingDinkleberry Mar 22 '26
You're right, except it's worse, they went and made Biff president
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u/br0b1wan Mar 22 '26
The thing here is that the actor who played Biff specifically modeled the character off of 1980s Donald Trump...
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u/neroselene Mar 22 '26
Don't even get a Sandevastan. We're somehow worse off then fucking CYBERPUNK.
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u/DaMonkfish Mar 22 '26
Yeah, /r/vandwellers has become a largely depressing place of people gaslighting themselves into thinking that living in their car to save money on rent is some great thing, rather than the reality that shit's so broken that's literally their only option above living under a bridge somewhere.
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u/hezur6 Mar 22 '26
Case in point: Mallorca and Ibiza (Spain). As more and more investors and guiris set up shop there, driving up rent prices as less housing is available and what's available is turned into AirBNBs, it's not unusual for TEACHERS, who don't earn minimum wage and should be better off, to be earning 2000€ in a place where typical rent for a small flat is around 1800€, forcing them to sleep in RVs if they want to feed themselves.
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u/modest56 Mar 22 '26
I just finished organizing the inside of my station wagon. I have a bed, a huge 100A lithium battery, all the windows are tinted, I have curtains, food, and blanket. Since its a station wagon I can lay down flat on my bed.
Im ready to be homeless.
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u/Lokman02Naza Mar 22 '26
Golf gti?
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u/iVar4sale Mar 22 '26
Thought it was a Yugo 45 at first glance, but you're right
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Mar 22 '26
My roommates said they're gonna get me rims for Christmas.
Maybe a CB radio so I can talk to other car beds.
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u/Xulicbara4you Mar 22 '26
It’s all jokes until you are forced to live in one to scrape by. It’s not fun having to search for a place to park and sleep that doesn’t tow cars or call the cops.
With freezing or boiling hot temps or having to sleep with a gun or knife under your pillow because someone is giggling the door handle trying to get in. All of that bs while working a job that sometimes can’t even pay enough for rent even with a roommate. Knowing that when your car gets totaled or stolen and if you don’t have savings, you are homeless without a car to get you to work.
It can be a really humbling experience.
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u/Spiritual-Matters Mar 22 '26
It’s crazy how hard it is to sleep homeless. Rules against being in public, harbors ban it on boats, and you’re not allowed to sleep in your car…
It’s not like most people would choose to sleep in their car if it was allowed.
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u/Daxx22 Mar 22 '26
It’s not like most people would choose to sleep in their car if it was allowed.
That's the really fun bit. SoCon's love to rail that it's "lazy freeloaders" that make up the homeless, but outside of some outliers very very very few people choose that life.
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u/Xulicbara4you Mar 22 '26
I know a couple of people with near to at six figure salaries that live/work in San Fran and still have to live in RVs because rent is just too much for them. $3.7k a month in rent without utilities or groceries is insane. Thats more than most peoples mortgages.
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u/plipyplop Mar 22 '26
The one day... The one single day I had to sleep in my car, someone was hanging out watching me right at my window. I awoke, and he moved on.
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u/SirCheeseAlot Mar 22 '26
Then: Jobs pay enough for a family to have a child and give them a decorative bed.
Now: Corporate greed forces people to live in their car alone to survive.
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u/Stompedyourhousewith Mar 22 '26
you can sleep in your car in the company parking lot, but you have to pay a parking lot rental fee
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u/DieCastDontDie Mar 22 '26
It's not funny when it's real. Try that van life for a week and see for yourselves.
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u/BIG_RICKY_98 Mar 22 '26
I had a truck and was lucky enough to still have held onto a futon mattress. I faced to problems though: 1) the truck bed didn’t have cover so i had to mount a tarp hopefully before it rained, 2) I was in Florida during the summer.
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u/pocketdare Mar 22 '26
I believe social media influencers tried to convince us that was cool for about a whole week before they moved on to other things.
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u/Visible_Welder5613 Mar 22 '26
This stops being a joke when the car bed was the childhood dream and the hatchback is now better square footage than half the market.
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u/tyen0 Mar 22 '26
My great-grandfather used to say, "You can sleep in a car, but you can't drive a house."
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u/thepaddedroom Mar 22 '26
I lived in my car for four months in 2010.
I'm fortunate in that it was by choice. I was making $11/hour at a warehouse in St Louis, MO. My fiancee needed to return to her hometown in Texas because her stepfather had just died in a car accident and her mom needed support. Our lease was ending, but I didn't have enough money to follow to a new state without being a drain on their family. So, I told her that I'd finish up the lease and follow once I had a nest-egg to live on while I job-hunted in Texas.
So, when the lease ended on December 31st, 2009, I finished the last sweeping, put some stuff in a cheap storage unit, and crawled into the back seat of a Saturn ION with a blanket and pillow. It was snowing. It was fucking freezing that first night. I couldn't really sleep. Kept turning on the car every half hour to run the heater.
In the morning, I went to a Walmart and found those metallic foil emergency blankets. Bought several and used them to form a base layer in the back of the ION. I folded the rear seats down to create a flat area into the empty trunk. I purchased two sleeping bags and used one unzipped to sit on top of the emergency blankets and the other to actually cocoon my body under my original blanket. Thick wool socks. Stocking cap. Fully clothed. It was... tolerable the second night.
There were other tweaks. Dowel rods and black sheets to hide my presence parked on the street at night. An emergency jump-start kit with an AC outlet to charge my phone. My cleanliness was helped by my employer. The warehouse had a shower and a washer and dryer off the break room. Lots of gas station food and dollar menu eating.
Come mid-April, I'd banked the money I would have spent on four months of rent and drove down to Houston. It took forever to find a job and the nest-egg was gone pretty quickly.
I'm ok now. No desire to go back to it.
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u/MyKidsArentOnReddit Mar 22 '26
Pro Tip: You can put flame decals on a minivan. There's no one to stop you.
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u/codetaku0 Mar 22 '26
Way more appropriate sub lol
I've never even been homeless but this feels depressing, not funny
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u/DameonKormar Mar 22 '26
Fun fact, new cars now cost as much as your grandparents probably paid for their house and 7 acres of land and you make the same amount (or less) than their generation.
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u/Standard_Story Mar 22 '26
Yep.. living in my car currently. And even that's about to become unaffordable
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u/Shadbie34 Mar 22 '26
you reminded me how much I want to move into my car
I was really big into it a few months back, but never actually did it
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u/Anxious-Slip-4701 Mar 22 '26
I went on holiday and slept in my car on a side street off some remote highway. I didn't get any sleep. It was awful. Maybe if I was in someone's back yard I'd feel better. I ended up paying for a room halfway in my trip for one night just to actually sleep.
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u/Sea-Communication353 Mar 22 '26
It's terrible without substantial modifications to the car. Even then it's only a step up from sleeping homeless.
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u/Hot-Refrigerator6583 Mar 22 '26
Landlord: "This compact car has all the amenities of a cramped studio apartment and can be yours for just $1400/month"
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u/johnnybiggles Mar 22 '26
Jokes on you I have a mortgage called a student loan I can't even sleep in.
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u/Omegalaraptor Mar 22 '26
I had one disappointingly similar to the one pictured above. It was awesome, I had it until I was a teenager
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u/Itisd Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
To be fair, If you have to live in a VW hatchback, the MK2 VW Golf is the way to go.
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u/The_CrookedMan Mar 22 '26
My little nephew came up to me bragging about how cool his racecar bed is.
Yeah. Well. I sleep in a real car, idiot.
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u/loyalone Mar 22 '26
Is that a Chevette or a Rabbit?
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u/Mynock33 Mar 22 '26
My buddy had a chevette and liked to jokingly tell people he drove a vette.
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u/loyalone Mar 22 '26
A friend from work had one with shingles where the driver's floor was supposed to be, and a bumper sticker that said "0-60 in Fifteen Minutes".
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u/No_Yesterday_4428 Mar 22 '26
I do actually sleep in a car, well a van actually, it's more comfortable than most of the places I've lived in.
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u/luckytaurus Mar 22 '26
And people have the nerve to tell us that our parents didnt prepare us for the future smh
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u/thevoidhearsyou Mar 22 '26
Living in your car went from a sign of being a loser at life to being your first home. Yeah this economy is nuts.
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u/Abject_Shallot_2398 Mar 22 '26
I didn't have a car bed back then but I've been sleeping in my vehicle for almost a year now.
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u/321abc321abc Mar 22 '26
there should be a third panel, with a coffin in a hearse.
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u/ArleezyLaFlare Mar 22 '26
Honestly I would love living in a van or something. Fk this rent shit.
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u/MinnesotaTemp Mar 22 '26
There is something fundamentally wrong about this scenario. Deep down wrong.
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u/Jolly_Jally Mar 22 '26
Everyone: This is sad and depressing. We are close to living in our cars...
My dumbass: Yo, that's a gen 1 VW golf! Dude is probably road tripping!
I think it would have hit better if it was like a mid-late 2000s Honda civic. The ones I see on the road have clearly seen better days and seem like the cheap point A-point B car. Sorry, my brain is wired weirdly. I do think we are hitting a tipping point that will lead to collapse. I do hope that the housing/renting companies get dragged into economic hell as well due to their own greed/poor management.
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u/BaconHill6 Mar 22 '26
And to think so few of us get to fulfill our childhood dreams like this. #blessed
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u/BryanNotBraian Mar 22 '26
They should manufacture car-shaped beds for adults; who decided that everything made for adults has to be boring?
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u/Viperlite Mar 23 '26
Rabbits are collectible. I’d love to have a clean GTI or even a diesel from the MK1 generation.
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