Hey everyone, I recently bought a 98 Astro with running boards. It's a conversion. It was in dreadful shape under the hood but that's mostly sorted out, the interior is somewhat shabby and doused with Febreze, and has a mystery spill in one spot, and I'm turning it into a camper so I can camp at shooting events (I teach rifle marksmanship) and also on vacations. I took out the captains chairs in the middle and left the bench seat. There is a broken spring under there and I can't lay the seat down. I think I might take it out too, but for now it's supporting a plywood bed platform on one side. When I do take it out, I'm going to put in a little kitchen just behind the sliding door.
A secondary stereo behind the drivers seat in the wall doesn't appear to even be getting power. I want to remove it and put a solar controller and inverter there, and put solar panels on the roof. Or, since it snows here, perhaps just charge the deep-cycles from the alternator, and have solar panels as an optional set-out for boondocking. (then there is the question of where to store them).
For now the bed is over the mystery spill. My cheap solution will be to put a piece of corrugated plastic under the bed so that the spill doesn't dirty up whatever I put under the bed. Eventually I'll want to replace the carpeting, probably with Pergo or something like that.
A secondary stereo behind the drivers seat in the wall doesn't appear to even be getting power. I want to remove it and put a solar controller and inverter there, and put solar panels on the roof. Or, since it snows here, perhaps just charge the deep-cycles from the alternator, and have solar panels as an optional set-out for boondocking. (then there is the question of where to store them).
For now the bed is over the mystery spill. My cheap solution will be to put a piece of corrugated plastic under the bed so that the spill doesn't dirty up whatever I put under the bed. Eventually I'll want to replace the carpeting, probably with Pergo or something like that.