Malcolm from Halifax showed me a neat hiding spot above the closet or as we
call it the cloak room. This is hard to describe but it is as follows:
1. open hatch
2. on the shelf, top left above the linen closet there is a small storage
area
3. behind this small storage area there is a cavity. I yet have to look on
our 86 Westfalia of this is indeed the case.
4. in order to access this cavity you have to do some cutting.

Perhaps this will be an incentive to take the closet out to make this cavity
accessible and spray some Krown rust proofing behind there at the same time.

Cheers,

Hans Brouwer
Cumberlabnd, Ontario
86 Westfalia
92 Cabriolet

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Reynolds" <kayakjr@JUNO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: storing valuables in a Westy

> And to think I just drove by your bus tonight, now if I had only checked
> the list before going out for ice cream!  ;)
>
> Now my vanagon is so ugly, no one would look for valuables in there!
>
> John Reynolds
>
>
>
>
> >I keep certain valuables up on the upper bunk in the aft section behind
> the
> >folded cushion. When the top is down they are well hidden. The
> compartment
> >next to the watertank is also another good place as is rear shelf above
> the
> >bunk, but out of view when the rear hatch is closed.
>
> >Ric