Nope. My car at the time was super shitty. In fact, I think I recall a couple of incidents with different cars. One of them was a shitty Dodge Omni with a broken heater core. I slept in that...
A van with heat would have been luxury - assuming I could at least afford some gas to get it heated up once in a while.
I had heat but I wasn't about to leave it run all night. A few nights I went and slept on a friends couch when it was 20 below zero
I didn't let it run all night. I just started it up once in a while, long enough to get some heat out of it. In the Omni, I just wrapped myself in blankets.
It's also easier to start the car for a while when you're already in the driver's seat and not laying down in the back of a van.
Yeah. I found that if I covered myself from head to toe, especially my head, then the sleeping bag or blanket I had would contain the heat escaping my body through my breath and that would keep me plenty warm most nights
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