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Here's a 17-inch system mounted in a Scion xB. It's in use as a daily driver, and works just fine.
That mount was custom-built, but, since we built that, we've found some very nice tilting systems on old desktop mounts for LCD monitors; many of them might be adaptable to your usage. Almost all LCD monitors and panels use a mount with a 100mm square screw-hole pattern. You might even attach the desktop mount to a custom base attached to the floor or seat rails. Check for non-functional LCD monitors at your local PC shop or Goodwill; tell them you're looking for an LCD panel that doesn't work. Maybe even offer them a few bucks for the right one; otherwise, they'd probably put it in the trash.
One other thing: you'll probably want to look at investing in a DC-DC power supply -- like an Mini-box M2-ATX or M4-ATX, or one of the Opus or Carnetix models. Yep, it's a chunk of money, but that inverter will change your fuel economy, and not in a nice way.
Oh, and one other thing you could consider somewhere down the road: I'm not familiar with the space in the Caravan, but I can see that you have a lot of air in that computer case. If you replace the power supply with a DC-DC unit, you could cut your existing case down in size, or relocate the PC to a much smaller box. In fact, the shell of the case you have would be pretty decent material to make your own box, and you could use the existing mainboard mounting panel as the mainboard mount part of it. You could use some aluminum angle -- not too expensive at Home Depot or Lowes -- to form the corners (pop rivets and pop rivet guns are cheap; check Harbor Freight). Lay out the size you want; eliminate the AC power supply, and move some of the parts around, and you might well fit it into the console or, if you just cut it down, make it so it fits naturally as a console. If you make a new box for it, it might fit under one of the seats.
Originally Posted by rdholtz
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