Building a Bed in my Car | Car living // Zachary Thomas

[Music] what's going on guys my name is Zachary Thomas and I live in my car today I just finished getting my car completely uh redone I got my inspection sticker because you need that in Louisiana and got my registration figured out and everything where we are 100% legal now to be on the road um I started I went to this place Dirt Cheap um I wanted to see if I could find any um any video games or movies that I could resell um because I decided I wanted to start looking at that and see see uh if I can find anything cool you know um unfortunately I I didn't find anything cool um there is one other place here that I want to go check but I need to get gas first all right we are at a place called Second and Charles I'm pretty sure it's uh fairly popular around the United States I think I've seen a couple of them on my Journeys um so you might have one near you they have like secondhand stuff stuff that that's uh used things like that things that people donate I guess um and we're going to go see what they have so far everything is so expensive guys like it's not even worth like getting like I can get it cheaper online if I if I just buy buy it online I can get it cheaper I can probably get it cheaper online and then sell to them like it's it's ridiculous actually sometimes they'll have like little bins and those are usually a lot cheaper but um from what I'm seeing right now there's just nothing uh nothing worth getting like this is 3.95 but I don't think this is even going to sell this thing's really cool I wish I could afford that $799 that's crazy that's not a bad price honestly for this but um this is pretty cool all right so they do have this they have a Frank Sinatra Cycles album for for 10 bucks and it's selling online for like 40 50 bucks but the only problem is they have a lot of them and some of them are like 15 to 10 bucks and they're still up so that doesn't mean I think that means that they're just not really selling that much so I'm going to pass on that one anyone who knows me knows that I'm a fan of Hamilton this is actually really cool I'm resisting not buying this actually right now so unfortunately I didn't find anything uh worth picking up um I did get uh Looking for Alaska it's my favorite book I lost it when I was in High School I lent it to somebody and I never got it back and I just I just never bought another copy so I figured I'll pick one up uh to have it with me because it is my favorite book so it's nice to have a copy with it so I can read it whenever I uh want to read it you know so we are about to head back to my dad's house and actually I'm going to get a uh car wash on the way I spent way too much money today by the way but I'm going to get a car wash in the way and vacuum out some stuff that way we're nice and fresh and then uh we're going to see about taking the seat out I don't know if I can get this into my mom's attic or not uh cuz that's that's where it's going to go uh presumably if I can't get it up there then I have to figure out somewhere else to put it but I don't know I might be able to I might not be able to um we put a lot of stuff up there yesterday so we're going to see if I can fit it if I can't fit it then we'll figure out we'll go from there figure out where to put it um but yeah it shouldn't be too hard I looked it up on uh YouTube The Beautiful YouTube and it looks like I only have to take out four screws and then I just take it out um I don't have have any Electronics hooked up to it um I shouldn't have anything hooked up to the passenger seat not that I'm aware of but we're going to find out whenever we uh take out everything but yeah I'm about to head back to my dad's house or I'm about to go get a car wash and then we're going to go to my dad's house and see uh what we can figure out so let's go all right guys we are back at my dad's house and we are going to look and see if I can get this seat out so apparently I just have to pop up these metal these uh I guess plastic things and then there should be a bolt under it I need a flathead screwdriver okay so I should be able to just wedge this under it and pop it up there we go perfect all right what about the other one all right oh this one's nice okay cool we got the two plastic pieces off we're going to put those to the side I don't remember you guys can't even see me right now um I don't remember what it is oh my god dude I hate I hate this ratchet set I can't ever open it it's like really weird okay there we go forget the size that they said it was so I'm just going to have to try dry him out and see this on all right so this is a ratchet set since you guys can't see and then I'm trying to uh loosen it so I don't know which way all right let's see if I can do this all right I guess I can't turn it that way let's try this way all right wh it slipped off Jesus Christ man at least I know it's well made there we go all right all right one done one more to go so yeah it's just the it's just these two bolts it was one one right here right there little hole and then on the other side there's another one now what I have to do is move the seat up and get the back ones and then the seat should just come out it should just lift right out um and there shouldn't be anything plugged in I don't think it is I can actually check while I'm thinking about it let me check uh okay there is something plugged into it so I have to unplug it um f figure out how how to do that and then yeah so when I take it out I need to lay it on its side so I can get a good look at the um electronics at the bottom and then from there we'll we'll figure we'll figure out how to haul it somewhere all right so we ran into a little problem I got three of them off I can't get this last one off for the life of me it's at like a it's at like a a diagonal and I'm trying to like get a good angle on it but I just I can't I can't get a good angle on it to get enough Force to like break it um so I don't know what to do I'm going I'm going to keep trying and eventually uh hopefully it works all right so it's the next day we are at Lowe's I'm going look at some wood I'm probably not going to be able to completely build everything today but we're going to go look and see what they have and go from there all right I'm back in my car I didn't really see well I I saw wood and stuff like that um I didn't see what I was looking for I was looking for a smaller piece of wood so I wouldn't have to cut but from what I can see it's just a bunch of big pieces of wood and the the smaller piece of wood is like triple the price of the big piece so I mean I might as well just get the big piece I don't know why it's so expensive but um looking at everything everything should be fine um I probably won't be able to work on it today I'll have to work on it either tomorrow the next day or whatever my mom has some tools that I'll be able to use and um yeah we'll go from there it's really it's really frustrating that I um had planned to like come out here do this and go and I've ended I've been here for like 2 weeks now now and haven't really done anything because of the weather uh this is only the second day that I've really been able to actually do something so um yeah it's unfortunate but nothing really ever goes according to plan so we're making the best of it we're going to figure out how to build everything um once I I get the seat out I'll be able to actually measure everything and get everything cut at um at Lowe's to the right dimensions that I want and then from there I can um figure something out all right everyone it has been quite a few days since I've uh filmed anything um it is Monday I think it's uh February 5th or something like that I want to make this video one long video um I didn't upload yesterday which was Sunday usually my upload day but I want to make this one long video of uh me you know converting my whole car um I wasn't able to do anything they had parades and my mom was doing a bunch of stuff so I I I couldn't do anything really so um today we are going to try I got got to get my I have a TV back here that's going to go up into the attic and also my passenger seat that is completely unlocked now I don't know if I told you guys that or not um my passenger seat going up in the attic uh I got a couple other things that are going up there and I'm going to try to get that done today tomorrow sometime this week I'm going to try and get everything done get some wood and start building um this has taken a lot longer than I thought it would because of the weather the rain constantly just uh kind of making everything worse honestly um never built anything before so I'm trying to make sure I cover all my grounds and not mess up you know um so I'm doing my best out here um I don't think I can get my seat out or well get my seat up I think I can get it out by myself but I don't think I can get it up into the Attic by myself so I have to wait to see if I can get some help to put it up there um my mom probably can't help me I don't I think it might be a little bit too heavy um it's not too heavy but like it I think it might be too heavy for her so um let's see what else I think that's it I think all I need to do is put the TV up there and the seat up there and then I can get my measurements get the wood and start building everything all right so I'm probably going to wait to put the seat and the TV up but I'm going to haul that little box up there real quick and then we're gonna see it wasn't that heavy honestly to take out um I took the the headrest off and basically just came right out so wasn't that bad uh it's really not that heavy so I think I could I could possibly just get it up there later today without any help or with my mom to supervise so that I don't fall and die so that wouldn't be fun what's up guys today is the day I keep forgetting to film so uh a little bit has happened since I last uh filmed it's really shaky so uh we have the wood I got some little 2x4s to put on top of my base got two pieces of wood we're going to build it up um I just left Lowe's and I got these little braces just to keep it a little bit more sturdy and um a drill bit somewhere right here a drill bit to drill the holes because I'm mounting the bottom piece like the base of the wood into where my seat was so I got a drill bit that I'm pretty sure is at least close to the right size I'll figure it out once I get there and um yeah we're going to drill two holes in there uh screw in the old screws to mount it to the car and then and we'll start building it out it is raining once again um anytime that I do work on the car it starts raining so we're just going to work around the rain um I shouldn't have to take any of the wood out except for the top piece so I could just put the top piece to the side and then work on the bottom piece and then put the top piece on later uh once everything's done so yeah we are going to start doing that all right I forgot to film again so um we're building the bed right now I got one leg on I'm getting the other one now it's a pain by myself all right that'll work [Music] let me get this other leg the middle legs are going to be a lot easier to do since I already have the other four on there it's going to be a lot more stable there we go all right so this is the bed or the plat the this is the base so the actual bed is going to go on top of this um and these bolts right here screw into the actual bolts of the car the base underneath where the seats uh screwed in so we're just going to screw those back in and see how it looks this is the first time that I've ever built anything so if I seem frustrated that's why I don't know what I'm doing so um yeah now all we have to do is take this put it on top of the uh base that we just made uh screw it all in hopefully correctly um and we'll go from there and then we got to cut out a uh I got a foam mattress that we're going to cut out to size for this and then we get to go look for some sheets to make it look nice so I'm going to do that I just remembered I bought some braces from uh from Lowe's so I'm putting those on right now um they're surprisingly going in a lot easier since they're smaller screws it's a lot easier to screw them in CU these are long screws and uh yeah it's basically what I'm doing right now right now I'm working on these bracers these are what this is what they look like and as you can see these are the screws very very very tiny and these are the screws that we're using for the wood so there's a big difference and these are a lot harder so I'm putting some braces on here uh hopefully that'll even help with the decision to go uh five instead of six uh legs and who knows I might decide to go um to go to full six at some point I'm still going to be here for at least another maybe week before I go anywhere um cuz I ordered some stuff that I'm going to show you guys once I get it we have all the braces on and now it's time to put the platform on top of here I got the bed it's a little bit higher than I thought it would be but I think it'll be fine I can figure I can figure it out you know we'll make it work um let's see I think what I'm going to do is I'm just going to use one screw um in this top one just because I noticed it when I used one screw like it was pretty sturdy honestly if I put one in like the middle it was pretty sturdy so we're just going to go for [Music] [Applause] it go it's sturdy and then two more in the back right here about say probably about right here think it'll be fine see yep and one more not too bad it's really not comfortable I could probably sleep like this I think that's fine but it's pretty good sturdy solid now getting on to it from the driver's seat is going to be the issue um that I haven't really considered but we we'll we'll get there somehow right all right so this video is really WR really really long it's taking a long time for me to get everything set to start building um I'm probably going to end the video here and hold on let me let me put you guys down for a sec all right so I'm going to end the video here um and I'll show you guys you know me getting putting the phone mattress on uh getting the sheets pillows you know whatever else I decided to get uh in the next video and yeah I appreciate you guys being patient with me while I uh built everything and it took a it took a while uh a lot longer than I expected to and um yeah I appreciate you guys and uh I will see you guys in the next video bye