Try one of the Honey Smoked Ham or Omaha Steak Styrofoam coolers. They're
heavy wall and might be a closer fit. They fit my 83 under the rear seat.
Sorry I can't give you the dimensions my last cooler got carried off with
delivery of BarB Q Brisket on labor day.

Stan Wilder
High Performance Ceramic Coatings
www.engineceramics.com

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:07 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: The Cool Cooler

I'd like to find an ice chest that will fit under the front edge of
Mellow Yellow's bed when the bed is opened. P-27 floor plan. Signs at
the last campground advised against leaving coolers and other food
storage items outside overnight due to bears. This at Palomar Mountain's
Observatory campground, part of the Cleveland National Forest in
California, where the bears were all hunted out decades ago. Ranger
speculated, off record, that since bears are unlikely to have migrated
from the Sierra Nevada across all that desert and those freeways
unaided, his money was on Yosemite rangers quietly and illegally
exporting their "trouble bears" to other forest areas.  His opinion
only. But the bears are reputed to be back.

Anyway, the plastic cooler we have is too tall to fit under the open
bed-shelf and is pretty much in the way when hauled indoors at night.
Something less than 13-3/4'' would be ideal. I tried the likely places,
like Cabela's and Campmor and Coleman with no luck.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR

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