Riviera hood spear question

[roaddevil13]

I have a 64 Riv, and just got ahold of a near perfect hood spear, but I need the retainers that hold it on. Is there anyone that sells them new or am I gonna have to dig to find em??

[WildKitty]

if the spear has them "tits" that go thru the sheet metal, samo samo with the chrome on the wildcat. the retainers were those flat metal screwons - pressed on at assembly, but you had to unscrew them to get the chrome off. I made my own retainers using plastic wall anchors - push them on, then slid a faucet washer over the anchor, then snipped off the protruding remainder of the anchor. It took me over 100 hours to take the chrome off the Wildcat, without breaking any of the "tits" - took me 6 hours to put it back on. 40K miles and no rattles