Golly, I don't know if styrofoam will be rugged enough. My lovely wife
and I are planning a year-long Westy camping trip. A styrofoam cooler
will probably crumble into unattractive and messy little plastic foam
crumbs long before the trip is over. Would like something more like a
blow-molded plastic cooler or a metal encased one -- I apologize for not
mentioning this requirement.

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

Stan Wilder wrote:

>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
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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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