I assumed the original poster was speaking of the outside of the closet cabinet, the rear face of it that you see through the back window when standing behind the van and of which you see the full height when the hatch is open.� Comes down at a slight angle and then drops vertically at about the halfway point.� Some folks put stickers there.� There is not much room between cabinet face and inside of the hatch or the glass, as you say, but enough that a hanging bag fastened at the top could contain several thinnish/flat/folded items which might be handy to have stored there instead of elsewhere that requires them to be dug out.� 

The hatch prop I mentioned is actually the lock extender, something used exclusively at the back of the van and which would benefit greatly from being readily at hand when the time comes to deploy it.� Right now it lives in the upper shelf back there (along with the jack and the telescoping hiking poles and some other stuff partially blocking the A/C intake) but there is always something on top of it when I go to use it..

Stephen

--- On Sat, 8/13/11, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:

From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Interior Modifications
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 1:09 PM

This confuses me a little.� My 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile has a storage cabinet behind the "closet," in front of the hatch door.� Are you talking about the tiny space behind that cabinet?� I could not fit much there.� There is just barely enough space for the curtain.� Are some other models different?

BTW, since putting on new hatch struts, I've had no need for a hatch prop.

mcneely

---- Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM> wrote: 
> We're currently constructing a hanging bag (like a closet door shoe bag) that will hang