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I'm doing the interior (almost done) and trunk on a '48 Plymouth. It has been apart for years and now I have to figure out how to put the trunk spring mechanism back together and in and hopefully working. It has a metal bar that runs inside a spring. The bar attaches to the lid on one end and the car bracket on the other. I know it will be a real trick to compress the spring, but my real question is what was used to attach the front end of the bar and the rear end of the bar??? The front looks like a long rod or bolt will work, but the rear looks like it must have used two rivets or something. If I attach the rear with rivets or bolts first, then it will be real hard to compress the spring. If I mount the spring first, it will be real hard to put in bolts or rivets in the rear mounts.

Anyone have any experience with htis setup. Any help would be appreciated. It looks like a good idea, I just wish it was together.

Thanks for any help.

I got the Galaxie out of storage this weekend and tonight after doing some get ready for cruising work on it...I'm sitting back with a cold one, looking at it and then the A project. I've always wondered what wide whites would look like on the 63 so I swap one front one off the A and slip it on the Galaxie. I'm not sure...I started three years ago with blacks, last year put the skinny whites out....I love wide whites, but 63 is the kind of the year skinnies came around....What do you think?