I saw a pic of one, I think it was on the Brick-Yard site.

Ugly as sin :) "extra room" slid out of sliding door area, like a
vestibule. I'll see if i can find the image, good for a laugh.

alistair

On 19-May-10, at 7:00 AM, Don Hanson wrote:

   This occured to me recently while on my bizarre long-mile/short-term
daily commute.  I can  easily see my spring-time jobsite ( a new house,
remember those?) from our porch..but it is across the Gorge, on the
south
side of the Columbia River in Oregon and I live on the Northshore, in
Washington.  My place and the jobsite are both about half-way between
the
nearest bridges across the Columbia, so getting over there by Vanagon is
about 45minutes.  Some 'idle time' to come up with hare-brained ideas
like....

   Has anyone ever tried putting a 'pop-out' or tip-out or whatever
the RV
crowd calls those fancy slide out expanders that seem to be all the
rage in
motorhomes and 5th wheel trailers now a days?  It'd be nice to maybe put
something in the rear of the van...we have about 5' across, inside,
now.  A
pop-out or maybe two, one each side, that let you sleep cross wise
inside
would be nice.  Westies have that rear  cabinet-box on the drivers side
anyhow.

   I know, probably silly.  But we do all kinds of really silly other
stuff
to campmobiles....Like those with the extra big full length+  plastic
tubs
on the tops of some American vans, the Adventure wagons with the very
tall
tops, the Westie pop up roof, the Alaskan telescoping slide-in truck bed
campers, some of the 'expando' low-boy trail behind camping trailers...

   Just an idle idea, though I plan on taking a closer look at how the
mechanisims work in motorhomes and trailers next time I get the chance..

   Don Hanson