real dirtbags have a small pickup with a plywood platform spanning the whole bed and above the wheel bumps, such that there is room for rubbermaid bins containing gear and ramen below the platform, and the platform is carpeted for improved sleeping.
Sounds like my van dwelling.....just in a van....not a small pickup....
more headroom! close enough.
i vaguely recall the above pictured fred showing a picture of his rig back in the 40's or something. it was just a small sports car with a ski rack, looked like a karmin ghia but i think that was before they started making them.