Patent ID: 6929306

Claim:
A flexible auxiliary storage arrangement for a vehicle having a passenger cabin and a cargo bed extending rearwardly from a rear wall of the passenger cabin, the arrangement comprising: an opening in the rear wall of the passenger cabin in communication with an opening in a front wall of the cargo bed, whereby a length of the cargo bed is extended into a rear portion of the passenger cabin; a movable door in the cargo bed closing off the opening in the front wall of the cargo bed, wherein the movable door includes at least one hinge at a bottom edge thereof; a recessed depression in a floor of the cargo bed for mating receipt of the door when rotated down about the at least one hinge to expose the opening in the front wall of the cargo bed; and a bag assembly having a rigid end panel sized for mating closure of the opening in the rear wall of the passenger cabin when the bag assembly is not in use and side walls fashioned from a flexible fabric defining with the end panel an extendable storage volume in communication with the cargo bed via the opening in the front wall of the cargo bed whenever the rigid end panel is moved into the passenger cabin.