REAR BODY CONSTRUCTION FOR AN AUTOMOBILE

摘要

An automobile includes a rear body portion with a trunk space in which a fuel tank is disposed immediately behind the closure wall for the passenger compartment. The backing of the rear seat is formed by a continuation of the passenger compartment floor plate upwardly in a curve behind the seat location. The backing or end wall and the passenger compartment floor are advantageously made of a single plate thereby forming a seal of the passenger compartment in respect to the rear trunk space behind the end wall. A fuel tank is mounted within the trunk space directly behind the curved plate end-wall and it is located over a trunk floor having an opening to the exterior to provide means for dumping the gasoline outwardly below the trunk space in the event of an accident and a rupture of the gas tank. The rear portion of the body is simply formed by tack welding of the upwardly curved rear plate, forming a continuation of the passenger compartment floor at each of its sides to extension of an interior tire housing and to a shelf portion formed at the rear of the vehicle above the trunk space. The tire housing on each side is easily spot welded immediately to both sides of the backing plate and the floor plate. With the method of the invention, the floor plate with the upwardly extending protection wall formation is easily tack welded to extensions of a tire housing on each side of the vehicle to complete the interconnection of a floor assembly to a side assembly of the vehicle at the rear thereof.