Neil, there's a small gaggle of us at work following your progress now and we're all champing at the bit for each new set of progress pics!
Do you have a mockup of what the interior will resemble? Passenger loading will occur only from the rear, correct? So how does the driver navigate his way thru the other seat rows to get to the front?
I recall that there had been talk at one point in this thread about making the seats foldable or such. Did you ever get a chance to see how the rear seats in the Honda Element fold flat, flip up, and buckle into the wall with simple carabiner clips? Low tech, but very efficient for creating a cavernous space. You'd never believe the size of some of the stuff I've hauled in my '03 Element!
In fact, you could probably scavenge the read seats, mounting posts and other needed bits from a totalled Element for next to nothing, provided the dimensions are close enough to be workable.
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