Has anyone drilled these out and replaced them with some snazzy bolts? I don't know if I should have them show or put them under the new carpet. Bumps will look stupid I think. The paint on the under side is 35 years old and still looks like new so, if I weld there will be something else to fix. This never ends.
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I can't quite place where this is. What where they used for?
I guess on only the early cars the front shock towers were attached via rivets. I could see a Yugo using this technique but not a wicked looking Italian sports car.
I was just going change the carpet and look what this steamrolled into.
Those are probably for mounting the remote mounted reservoir for the original brake master cylinder.
John
It was a dealer added security mounting on a pile of early cars, , they are pop rivet treu the carpet .
on both sides of the inner fender.
Did they have any that failed? Is that why?
I'm getting ready to close the coffin by installing the carpet over the rivets. It will have little bumps I guess and I'll need to live with it 
not unless anyone has another idea.
@Donny Dotson posted:Did they have any that failed? Is that why?
It was a strange solution for make the bracket mounting , witch was welded on the inside , stronger.
Maybe because there was failed a few weldings on a few cars by wrong mounting brackets by the factory ?
Have seen this on 2 Pantera's
@Donny Dotson posted:I'm getting ready to close the coffin by installing the carpet over the rivets. It will have little bumps I guess and I'll need to live with it
not unless anyone has another idea.
welding the brackets on the inside is a better way , but if you dont like to do this , install the carpets over the rivets.
Or when you have thin upholstery like the original felt ,you also can pop rivet them treu the felt and keep it as is or paint them black.
as write before it was a cheap solution and was add by the dealer and belongs to your car.
But it is your car and you can do the way you like it.
Simon
Simon, after further investigation I have concluded this being one of the early cars to come off the assembly line, the workers and the quality control peeps at the factory simply over looked welding the
top part of the suspension. Here is a pic showing lack of welds to the top portion of the shock tower.
If I can't come up with some similar rivets, I'll just find some clean looking bolts,nuts and washers.
@Donny Dotson posted:Simon, after further investigation I have concluded this being one of the early cars to come off the assembly line, the workers and the quality control peeps at the factory simply over looked welding the
top part of the suspension. Here is a pic showing lack of welds to the top portion of the shock tower.
yes this is what I meant .
Simon
