Comments on: Save $100 on your NEXT VACATION

By: Aryea

Aryea — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:07:57 +0000

Bob: I know what you mean. I used to own a 1954 Hudson Jet when I was younger that I replaced the stock front bench seat with a Nash Seat-O-Matic (as it was known). This was also a bench seat, but the back of the seat would lower down in a series of increments by turning a knob at the base of the seat back. The last setting of course, was dead flat, which will allow you the slide the front against the rear and create the equivalent of a twin bed. With a blanket and pillows (which I always happened to carry in the trunk), I had a cosy little getaway wherever I happened to be. The reason I went through all this trouble? Girls of course! At that time, mothers would not let their daughters date boys who drove a Nash, just because of the afore mentioned seats. But because I drove a Hudson (a nice staid family car), I was considered ’safe’. Little did they know, eh? This was the reason I used to check _my_ daughter’s boyfriend’s cars when they came calling. We were all teenagers at one time.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:47:27 +0000

If there’s still so much room left in the boot (trunk), why do they have to use a roof rack with all their luggage on it?

By: Toronto

Toronto — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:48:44 +0000

Gith: not especially. It can be hard to find a good place to put a tent alongside the road sometimes (though others have more skill than I.) I expect that it would be more difficult again as a couple.

(I bicycle tour and camp, solo, with a 2-man tent. The real pro stealth campers use hammocks.)

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:28:09 +0000

If they traveled in a Nash, they would have had seats that converted into a bed without modifications.

The ability to convert the seats into a twin bed was a selling feature of the Nash for a number of years. They even sold screen inserts that fit over windows. My pop owned a 1950 Nash Ambassador. He didn’t camp out in it, but he no doubt got a little kick out of driving a car with a reputation as a love nest on wheels.

By: Githyanki

Githyanki — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:39:42 +0000

Wouldn’t a small tent and a inflatable mattress be alot easier to deal with. Also give you more room to pack stuff in the car.

By: katey

katey — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:40:46 +0000

This seems scandalous for the mid 50s… a couple sleeping in ONE twin bed on the roadside?

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:13:01 +0000

It’s really cool that they have a chick making the modifications as well as The Handy Guy.