Well I did it now

holy crap dude, this sounds like my car, only different.

The way I got my trunk open was with a flathead screwdriver, if you look down the rusty little hole in the trunk lid you should be able to see where to put the driver. but other than that you sould like you're in good shape, but try the magnet trick i found alot of crap bondo work on my Valiant that way.