Reply to "Decklid Latch Wanted"

In my experience, don't spend a lot of time trying to find or fabricate a 'limiter' for the decklid latch to prevent the thing from chipping paint on its corners. The forces involved are simply too large and none of the three different latches worked for me, so after fixing the chips on our '72 L, I added a rubber bicycle tire patch to each corner of the rain gutter, and let the sucker shake. That was 10 years ago; no chips yet....