Ok, so an incident at the local 'drive-thru' car wash and I'm putting in a new antenna...

How in the heck to you pull the interior panels off to get into the driver side quarter panel to replace the antenna?

Those damn interior rivets don't want to come out! I know I'm missing something simple here...

Push the center "post" of each rivit IN (so it falls out the backside of the rivit). Then you can PULL the rivit out of the panel.

Then, you need to find those posts so you can reuse them when reinstalling the panel and rivits. a vacuum helps to collect them, but put a sock or piece of pantyhose over the end of the vac to keep the posts from entering the vac bag/cannister.

Damn! That makes sense now. Thank you!

I searched the forum ruthlessly and none of the previous posts I found ever mentioned the center of the rivet needed pushed in!

You need to read not just the title of the post, but the original posting and replies as well.

I typed in "rivet" and got 74 hits, of which the first 25 seemed to have info.

The title to this one is :"Interior rivet alternatives?"

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16110&highlight=rivet

And post #10 discusses how to remove, and a couple of alternatives.

FWIW

Enrique

MSA sells the plastic rivets all colors in packs of 10.