@bosswrench posted:Doug, my '72 L trunk insert doesn't have a hole either, but the steel nut is visible with a strong light inside the fiberglas. Careful drilling should expose the threaded nut. I never drilled it because for better balance in our car, I put the folding sidewall spare up front as it was in the prototypes, but with a hold-down system up there that IMHO it should have had from the beginning.
I mounted the spare upside-down in the trunk (with a tire cover) so I can carry some stuff inside the wheel's backside. Thus it takes a much shorter than stock hold-down bolt & the welding of a nut & washer to the underside of the front trunk floor. But doing that really requires a dropped battery as in the post-Ford-built cars. Always something....
My trunk liner is still here but no longer in the stock configuration because of the 180 headers. It was shortened and has two muffler humps in it. As such even a collapsible spare will not fit.
On the subject of a spare in the front trunk, what fits in there? A full spare or a collapsible?
My battery is already "down in the well now" and it probably would be a good idea to run with a spare at some point?