Yup, there was a rear cover option, a sliding affair. I think it was not offered in NA.

It's pretty obvious to have your vanagon gear secured. It's really obvious after you hit the whoop-dee-doo roller coaster bumps at speed on a logging road you've traveled time and time again.

All the little loose bits and bobs seem to elevate then come back down in different locations.

Alistair

> On Dec 18, 2014, at 8:28 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Either way, it is of concern when said object reaches rapid deceleration, especially if that happens against a soft bio-chemical life form.
> I have my fire extinguisher bolted down and most other items under the folding bench, but I do worry about the "trunk" organizer not being secured down. It holds my extra fluids and such for the van.
> 
> IIRC I remember seeing a pull out cover option once upon a time for the 7 passenger tin tops like mine. I often though some sort of cargo netting for the trunk area could be in order.
> 
> T.
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Inertia can be a problem in vanagon land, but I think you are talking about momentum.
>> 
>> Alistair
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > On Dec 18, 2014, at 8:03 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> >
>> > With the inverter/crock pot cooking under way conversation going elsewhere
>> > here, it's probably a good time to bring up the Subject.
>> >    Anything you have, unsecured, in your van as you're going somewhere, it
>> > will become a potentially lethal projectile in the event of crash.  The
>> > whole van and all it's  contents are full of kinetic energy at speed...stop
>> > the van against something and all the loose  contents will keep going until
>> > THEY get stopped, too.  If that crock pot, that set of golf clubs, that
>> > portopotty, that table saw hits YOU or anyone else during a crash, it is
>> > likely to damage or kill.
>> >   One of the cardinal rules in auto racing and for club tracktime events
>> > is absolutely no loose objects inside any car when on track.
>> >   Yes, it's really not something we often consider as we VANAGON around,
>> > but inertia exists.  Something to be aware of.