I had decided to use the 05 trunk latch assembly as it has an electric & manual opener and the 05 wiring harness is set up for it. The bottom latch looked as though it would fit in the pocket where the 41 was and the upper part of the latch had to mounted to the trunk lid where the existing trunk handle/latch and license plate were mounted. Rather than build a plate assembly for it I thought a frenched in license plate box would give me a smooth mounting surface on the back of it and clean up all the holes in the trunk lid.  This idea came from "Full Custom Garage" Ian Roussel work on one of his custom builds.  These two pictures show the 05 latch with the manual pull cable attached to the lower latch and the pocket where the 41 latch catch was mounted.  A hole was cut in the bottom of the pocket to fit the lower latch and to see where the upper latch had to be mounted.  I found a frenched in license plate box on Amazon that was the least expensive and ...