History of trunk mounted fuel cells

[Wauzbert]

Hi,

can anybody lead me to a direction about when people started to mount tanks into their trunks and how they did it back then? I guess there were no polyethylene fuel cells around 

I'd like to convince my technical inspection authority in Germany that a fuel cell in a trunk was a typical tuning for drag racers in between 1970 and 1980. That way my challenger can maintain its status as "classical car" and save me a lot of bucks for the insurance.

Thx
Volker

[cudabob496]

Don't know history, but here's present NHRA regs on the issue.

http://www.nhra.com/UserFiles/file/General_Regulations.pdf


one of the keys is a fire rated steel plate between the passenger compartment, and the trunk containing the fuel cell.  You could put it
behind the rear seat back cushion, and no one would know it.  I used a thick piece of sheetmetal cut to the shape of the cardboard that was back
there.