Sure @jannytsunami . I’ll share some more pics at some point.
The short story is that I bought a cargo net based on some suggestions here. It was not a good solution for a V2, as you said. First, the frame mounting points are in the wrong location to mount it. Second, when stuffed with my bedding, it blocked the rear window.
My solution was to create a rectangular frame from thin aluminum extrusion. The frame is the same length as the fixed bed area at the front, and wide enough to just touch on both sides. There is also a crossbar right over the center of the rear window, so that no matter how much stuff I cram in there, it cannot block the rear window completely, it just swells down on either side. I’ve thought about adding another crossbar here.
I made a series of aluminum brackets on my waterjet that connect the extrusion directly to the frame attachment points. I’m considering selling a set of these so other people can reproduce this setup. They’re easy to make, just a strip of aluminum with two holes. One to attach to the frame attach, the other to bolt into the extrusion.
Then I took the “useless” cargo net and stretched it over the frame. I zip tied it in a dozen places so it was under reasonable tension, and covering the entire frame. That worked pretty well overall.