Height of cabover bed in 80's Glendale

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I have a Coachmen Catalina Sport and modified a regular 5 foot wood step ladder by removing the back support and cutting the unit so that it rests on the wood part of the overhead bed this tuned out to be the perfect height and spacing of the rungs, you might be able to do the same, and once you give him the present, finish the project, I also installed a couple of sliding locks at the junction of the ladder legs and the bed so that it does not move side ways, make sure that if there is a couch that converts into a bed it is in the open position when installing the ladder for clearance, I also installed a hand hold in front of the A/C as a hand hold for stability when going down facing aft, sorry I can not provide a photo, I ruined the lens on the tablet.

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Wanted to add, if the floor of the "house" part of the RV is about level with the floor of the Ford cockpit, then height should be right at 60" for any Class C built that way. It's when the RV builders added "basement storage" by putting the house up on an elevated platform that the coaches got a step down from the house into the cockpit. Those with tall basement compartments down the lower sides have more like 4-feet up to the bunk. The whole RV is taller, and it's really noticeable in the cabover bunk area. In those '80's models you can't even sit up in bed. The basement models are very easy to get around in up there.

We had an '84 Holiday Rambler Class C. We carried a 5-foot aluminum stepladder. We leaned it unopened against the edge of the cabover bunk. The height was about even, so I think your "60-inch" estimate is right on the money. I toyed with modifying the ladder, removing the back legs and the bucket shelf, but I never did. We used that coach with the cabover bed always "open" as in ready to use. In fact we had a residential innerspring mattress up there, so there was no closing the bed.
I also thought of starting with a wooden ladder, carpeting the steps, eliminating the back, installing brackets, maybe extending one side to form a hand grip at the top like a "pueblo ladder." Our aluminum ladder had rubber feet and the coach was carpeted, so the closed ladder leaning against a bunk that couldn't close never slipped or moved.