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Always used to do it normally (head to tailgate) until this year's holiday on Western Isles with 1 year old on parcel shelf bed. This forced us to change around.
At 6'3" I was concerned at not fitting, but found it was better as my feet did not hang out the end in the cold.

Many campers were based on panel vans, so may not have had original VW windows - think how many modern vans have windows from the original maniufacturer, rather than from a caravan company. Mine has straight rectangualr windows with curved corners. I would have thought that any normal glass supplier...

I do like the blue ledge & brace door in place of the normal tailgate.

Well thought out looking stoarge though - how will you finish the timber - varnish, paint, laminate?

Which seat is it under?
If it is a largish box with air hoses coming out of it, then it is a heater and is supposed to get hot.
If it is smallish and has wires coming out of it, then it probably shouldn't.

Even the French have not had yellow headlights for 15-odd years.
Doesn't it reduce the brightness a lot?

Mine has two overlapping L sections of black plastic, each about 30 x 30 mm. The lower one is the right way up, with the upstand against the exposed edge of the floor and the horizontal part laid on the cill, and the upper one has the horizontal part screwed on to the floor finish and the downstand ...

You can get combined top vents, which have a small spigot to attach the flue, and the rest is just open vent for cooling airflow. Mine has a grill covered slot about 1.5 inches high at the top and bottom of the fridge door, so it draws and expels cooling air from inside the van, similar concept to W...

I've just installed the Bluebird cab bunk with the springy poles. Did not want to drill a new hole in the A pillar to fit it, because: a) There are already plenty of holes in it, so why weaken it further b) It is a sodding thick piece of steel, so wondered how many drill bits I would blunt (and wind...

There is also a discrete spot at Street Gate, just between Malham Cove and Tarn.
Bit isolated (but isn't that the point?), and secluded by raised earthworks around a small quarry-looking thing.

Also try Fidden Farm, at Fionnaporth on Mull (excuse spelling).
In fact, almost anywhere on the Scottish west coast and islands - if you want to go that far.

I have. Chose it as it was the shortest, so better able to fit in a box.
Quality is fine. In fact Fiamma boast it is stronger as it has a single piece blown plastic moulding, so no weak seams. I am pleased to say that at 80kgs I have not had to test this!

Thanks Graham - that sorts out the "may I" part. So with a bar running across the front and back of the two seat boxes to create a base, and a lateral bar across the seat back, that will give seat mounting points as well as places to mount a 3 point seat belt. Anyone else done that - or di...

Now we have a small daughter, I have fitted a 3 point seatbelt in the back, but she seems very left behind, back there. To better share the experience with her, we would like to get her up front, meaning a double passenger seat. This will also create a space more suitable for adapting to a cab bed /...

I've got the stretcchy curtain wire on the tailgate like most others, though the original curtains used a bottom rail, and that was a bit fiddly to open.
Side curtains have short velcro strips stitched along the bottom, which stick to the carpeted walls.

We have spent New Years Eves at the National Trust sites at Landale and Wasdale. Can't comment on the TV reception though - not really why we went there.