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Originally Posted by 99_6speed
I also want to add some amenities like sleeping berths. I would love to see how you have or will fit yours out.
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There are lots of race trailers and horse trailers available with LQ (living quarters) up front. Anywhere from the plain and simple to the decked-out luxurous. Maybe study the options available from the various LQ trailer manufacturers before you tackle the conversion job on yours. Visit trailer dealers that sell LQ trailers and note how they are designed and put together.
Most of the LQ trailers are gooseneck/fifth wheel, with the "bedroom" over the hitch. But with your tag trailer, you'll have to "make do" without the automatic spot for the bed.
If your main concern is a good bed, then I'd go to Sam's Club and buy the best queen-size mattress they have. Mattress only. You'll pay about half as much as the same mattress at a furniture store, plus the furniture store probably won't sell you a new mattress without the overpriced foundation/box spring. Here's the one I sleep on at home:
Sam's Club - Serta® Fairmont Firm Eurotop Mattress - Queen
Then go to a good lumber yard and order a piece of 3/4" plywood in size 5'x9' (ping pong table size). They probably won't have it in stock, but they can order it. You don't need the 9' long, but you do need the 5' wide, and nobody that I know of makes a 5'x8'. Cut the plywood to be just a hair longer than the mattress (5' is already the right queen-size width). For traveling, stand the mattress up against the front wall, stand the plywood up behind the mattress, and secure the bed tightly to the wall with motorcycle tie-down straps. That means you'll probably have to add at least 4 tie-down gromets in the wall.
For sleeping, get the race car out of the trailer and fold down the mattress.
Keep the mattress in a heavy-duty waterproof mattress cover, and keep the bed linens and covers in a watertight plastic storage box when not used to make the bed. Be sure the floor is clean under and near the bed when it's folded down.
And of course if it's my race trailer, it's going to have air conditioning, and maybe even a 5,000 watt generator to power the AC in case I have to park where's there's no juice.
