So what do the back of those rivets actually look like? Even without the special VIN rivets you'd think that if it wasn't installed with the car running down a normal assembly line they'd have at least used normal pop rivets unless the VIN was going on at a time that they couldn't easily get a riveter in there and the furniture tack looking ones was the best way someone came up with to install it.

It's an interesting car none the less and at least when you've owned it as long as you have it makes things easier to at least track how long things have been a certain way rather then someone buying it now and not knowing what's happened in the last 64 years with it.