After going over the car replacing things that need to be replaced I've come across a lot of the previous owners "creative" solutions (substituting random fasteners is the big one!).

The interior tail light panel on my car is screwed down with some silver/chrome screws that don't seem like they belong there. This seems like a place for some plastic rivets, not a screw with a pretty long pitch and a point at the end (to my untrained eye at least). On top of that, the holes these screws attached to underneath the panel didnt look like they originally had threads at all.

I looked over my FSM and the microfiche CD and couldn't find a diagram or description of how it was originally held down.

Could someone tell me if this is the way it is supposed to be, and if not, what SHOULD be holding the panel in place?

My 1972's rear interior panel is held in place by the same plastic rivets that keeps the other plastic panels.

Thats what I suspected! I'll have to make a trip up to courtesy for some stuff soon anyway, guess ill get a bunch of rivets while i'm there.

Thanks