66 El Camino - Project CaMEANo

[Yelcamino]

Mine will be easy to remove since most of the lower half is rusted away already, haha.

I like what you did with yours. How water tight is it?

My initial thoughts were to seal it shut completely from the top - since I'll probably be using it for truck duty somewhat often, I don't want to be in a situation where I need to open the panel up but it's covered with a bunch of stuff. Then cut the hole out in the cab wall. Height would be the issue there for a battery, but I wouldn't have any problem with making the floor a little deeper. I would use an optima probably with side-post cable ends to make for easier access.

For what I normally keep in there, it's water tight enough. I have a couple of drain holes for any water that does get in. If you look at the pic of the right side, you can see there's plenty of height for an optima battery even with top posts.

The only draw back to sealing it and then having to access through the cab wall is there isn't a whole lot of room behind the seats so getting larger items in/out of the cab opening might be a pain.