Last week on the way back from an out of town meeting I passed through
a small community where there is an old house with hundreds of VWs,
dozens of buses and a handful of vanagons. I pulled in and talked with
the guy working in the barn. He was a very nice guy who sold a few
parts but is mainly in the business of pulling bus transmissions to
put Into rail buggies. He had hundreds and hundreds of engines.

His two vanagons were aircooled and pretty rough, though he wasn't
planning to part out either (I was looking for a windshield).  It was
my first look at aircooled vanagon westies. Both had front cabinets
with fridges and pantries, but under the lid there was no stove but
only a sink. The water tank was under the bed. The clothes closet was
the same as later westies, but the cabinet between the closet and the
stove was much lower than the later ones and had no table above it.

Was this a common layout back in aircooled days?

Jim