My westy has a nice door in the rear bench for easy access.
There were some recently on eBay at:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=jtharvey%40hotmail.com

Thanks,
Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:38:15 -0600
>From: Gary Shea <shea@GTSDESIGN.COM>
>Subject: Re: bench seat storage
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>It's a nice idea.  This is how list vendors are made, ya
know.   Go
>ahead, figure it out and see if anyone will buy it from
you ;)
>
>        Gary
>
>[2002-08-30 14:38 -0400] Scott Longing (slonging@VT.EDU)
wrote:
>> Hey VW'ers,
>>
>> I have a question...as I am still exploring the many great
vanagon perks.
>>
>> I have an 85 weekender with the fold-down bench seat.  It
seems that I
>> should be able to pull down the panel below the seat to
expose the storage
>> area without pulling up the bench seat.  I think this
because of the 2
>> small cutouts on the upper margin of the panel, and also
there is some sort
>> of small leverage bar, lock bar or whatever connected to
the frame within
>> the storage area.  However, there are 2 screws on each end
of this panel
>> that makes me think there is no way to do this.
>>
>> Any input on this is greatly appreciated, pulling up the
bench seat to snag
>> tools, etc is not as easy as it seems it should be.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Scott
>> 85 Vanagon
>>
>>
>>