Modular storage and organizing system for vehicles

An improved universal modular storage system for vehicles, which storage systems have a plurality of adjacently disposed generally box-shaped storage units including at least one main storage unit and at least one auxiliary storage unit, each of said units having a plurality of upstanding panel walls including a front panel, a rear panel and a pair of spaced apart side panels disposedly connected between said front and rear panels and wherein at least one of said panel walls includes means for engaging a panel wall of an adjacently disposed storage unit, and at least one of said storage units is a hanging file box unit which includes:

• a) a pair of support rods, each of said support rods having a first elongated end portion, a second elongated end portion and a medial bend portion therebetween, said first and second elongated end portions being offset a lateral distance from one another by said medial bend portion;
• b) a pair of support rod securing means disposed on opposing panel walls of said hanging file box unit for attaching the end portions of each of said support rods to said opposing panel walls, the end portion of each of said support rod being attached in one of two laterally spaced positions, said positions being spaced apart a lateral spacing distance equal to said lateral offset distance;
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• c) said lateral spacing distance of said support rod securing means corresponding to a difference between a legal size file width and a letter size file width.