Re: Making an onboard cooler
making a great working cooler is easy...
back in the day we built an old bread truck into a track truck for pulling the race car...
the front half was for traveling, and the back half was a rolling garage...
we basically built rectangular boxes out of plywood for bench seating up front...lol, this was before seat belt laws, we lined the boxes with 2" foam board and used spray adhesive to keep it in place, if you go with carefully cut 45's on all the corners you can get a very tight and perfect fit....
then we took the plastic shower board stuff you get at HD and cut to fit, spray adhesive, and sealed the seams with 5200 sealant....
drilled a hole in the bottom, through floor of van also) to fit a standard sink drain, installed the drain, sealed with 5200, and plumbed a drain to drain the water where the AC condensate would normally drain....
we used a regular ol' rubber sink drain plug to plug the drain, we drilled a couple small holes thrue the plug to let the water trickle down and out....
the top is simply cut to fit, we used 3/4" doubled up and cut foam out to fit into the bottom snugly.....we camoflouged to look like a simple bench seat with a cushion on top.....
it would hold ice for days, and would fit enough beer to last a whole weekend at the race track.......
lol, no one who ever looked or sat in the van was ever the wiser to what they were sitting on until we needed another round !.......empties were crushed and put right back in the cooler so it was a completely self contained system..
i reckon the point is/was.......you can build a very good working cooler, to any size you need it, and make it look like it belongs there......
