A nice touch that I saw on my 65 CHrysler was that they filled in the seams where the C pillar blended into the rear fenders , just ahead of the trunk. So I did some seam filling on my wagon. I just used plastic filler, but was careful to bevel down the metal (about 1-2 mm) running along the seams on each side of the seam, so that the filler covered about a I inch spread across the seam (OK, 25.4 mm). That way, the filler will be less apt to just crack in the seam. Some decent before pictures would help, if you care to chime in.
The optional backup lights were a $26 option that year. According to the inflation calculator I used, that's $211 today. I question that.
I suppose backing up was an option many years before that!
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