Ok, I know what you are saying,”What the heck is a Deck-In?” Well, I have always had fond memories of when I was in high school and going to the drive in was the thing to do. The cars, the food, the fun. Now that I am married with kids I would love for my children to experience that atmosphere too. For quite some time I wondered how I could ever create that experience for my kids. I am happy to say that thanks to personal projector technology I can now bring that dream to life.
I decided to turn my deck into my very own drive-in, or as I say Deck-in. There were three aspects that I really thought were going to be a chore. These problems are seating, atmosphere, and sound. Well I already have a giant space on my deck that would be perfect and open enough for seating. But the problem is, I want this to be a drive in. So what I did was visit the local junk yard and paid them $50 for the entire back seat and trunk of three small older cars. I was very sure to pic three that did not need any work done to them. Loaded them up on a trailer and brought them home. I designed a wheel system using simple heavy duty cart wheels form any home improvement store so they can be moved and placed anywhere.
So, seating was finished now I needed the atmosphere. Of course I purchased an inflatable screen, yes folks, inflatable……its awesome blow it up and it’s there, deflate and store in the trunk of one of the cars. I also already have a HDMI projector so playing the movies is easy too. I went to a dollar store and grabbed a ton of movie style candy…also stored in the trunk of one of the cars. So atmosphere is set!
Now on to the sound. It took a little figuring but I went ahead and bought a little dvd player that had its own speakers built in to it. I was skeptical at first, but man does it crank the sound out! So, mission accomplished, now my kids and wife seem to use the Deck-In even more than I do!! Lol Well, good luck…..and happy watching.