Van for 4 with example of what I am looking for

We bought our Sportsmobile with the rear sofa/bed. The sofa faces forward with three seat belts and opens to a double bed. (This was to take my mother and aunt shopping, Dr. appts, etc.) The penthouse top affords another sleeping area. We love ours!

Actually I think the ad states porta potty, but looked like a regular rv toliet in the photos. Hard to tell really. Either way it could have worked.
I will keep looking. Apparently it is rather unique in the vans with the overhead bed to also have the rear bed and the side sofa bed as well. Like I said in my opening post I believe it is the first I had seen one like that and think something similar would work well for me.
It seems like you could leave the rear bed made up, have passenger seating on the sofa during the day while driving and let the kids sleep overhead when stopped.
Something like the roadtrek versatil mentioned earlier may also work.Thanks for all the suggestions so far.

Bumpyroad wrote:
port-a-potty??
bumpy

like a cassette style toilet.

removable waste tank under the seat.

Mike

I believe a 90s Airstream, Great West Van, Holidaire, Horizon, Falcon might fill the bill for you. They all had models with the upstairs bedroom. Some had a side sofa and some had a booth dinette, with the full bath in the rear.
Try rvtrader or kijiji.
john 'I am Canadian'

port-a-potty??
bumpy

Sportsmobile will build four front seats with belts and two sets of bunkbeds at the rear. Check out the EB/LB Sprinter examples on their site.

the roadtrek versatile series has a sideways sleeper in the rear and 4 seats up front, which can convert into 2 n=beds for the kids...probably a little lumpy

the older winnebago rialta has a couple of floorplans which have seat/bed conversions up front and dinette/bed in teh rear

these may work on a restricted budget


mike

Thank you for the responses so far. Definitely looking at used and probably at least 10-15 years old to be more in line with my budget. I may have bid on that one I mentioned if I had seen it sooner.
Guessing it had sat quite a bit recently and I realize all the problems that come with that too. But atleast it had new tires, brakes and brake lines!
I will keep looking for the models mentioned above and see if I see anything else similar. I am in no rush and just want to know models to look for

New, no, because motor vehicle safety standards have changed what can be done with seating that will be used when the vehicle is in motion, for this class of passenger vehicle. Standards loosen quite a bit when the vehicle crosses a GVWR threshold slightly higher.

Used, look for other Coachmen and Shasta conversions, although I don't think Shasta made it into the '90s, let alone the 21st century; it became a Coachmen brand. Coachhouse and Xplorer were building van conversions into the 90's, but I'm not sure either did a side sofa bed, I haven't been shopping for that myself, and I'm pretty sure Coachhouse did not do overhead beds, all I've seen have a low cap. American Cruiser was doing overheads into the late '90s, I don't know interior layouts.

The last Westfalia imported (on Sprinter, sold as Airstream) had the overhead bed, but no bed in back, that was the kitchen and bath. Lower bed was a dinette in daytime, so that nobody was seated sideways.

You can look for Sportmobile conversions, most were custom built; although there are many "standard" layouts offered for each van size, customers could have just about anything built. Sport mobile is an option if you want a new one, you tell them what you want and they build it within the limitations of the platform you choose.

If you want the overhead bed, at Sportmobile it will likely be a pop-up, and now on the Chevy chassis, as everybody else is building high-top vans at the factory and as those are unit bodies, the converters have not yet been cutting the roof off to put something on top.

PleasureWay Traverse was the most recent "standard" model with an overhead bed, that was a popup and had only the bed in the rear. It was built on an E-150, thus the "short" van and 8600 GVWR max.

I take some of that back. Sportmobile is now doing pop tops on all brands they build on, hard tops and high tops for Chevy only. The really big top, like the one on that Coachmen, they only did on the Ford extended van, and for that, you would have to bring your own van.

When I bought my E-350 8-passenger early 2014, the 8 passenger was selling here for about $21K, 12 passenger $23k, "last year" ex-rentals with around 20,000 miles. Express 3500 passenger vans about the same.

Look at the suggested plans for long-body Sprinter for examples of something resembling what you saw in the Coachmen.

Sportsmobile custom camper vans will build you whatever you want. Also Advanced RV builds custom Class Bs on a Sprinter chassis.