Suggestions for unlocking rear deck lid on older Intermeccanica Speedster

Seems my cable has streched as I am unable to unlock my rear deck lid when pulling the knob on the inside left rear side.
Any suggestions as to how to access the lock mechanism eassily to unlock the rear deck lid.

Are the bolts holding the latch on the engine cover visible? If so, can you drill them out to release the latch? Or maybe remove the grill and try to reach the latch. Or unscrew the cable knob and pull!

on my VS i would take the grill out and reach thru.

I'll second Bob's suggestion.
Do the following:
1. take out the hood grill (four bolts)
2. undo the nut that holds the pin for the locking mechanism. (visible at the bottom of the grill opening)
3. with that undone you should be able to push out the bolt and open the engine hood.
Hope that helps
Ron
p.s. Been there, done that....

On my Vintage I ran a second release wire from the mechanism to a tie off place inderneath the car just forward of the bumper. If my factory wire breaks I can just pull the spare from underneath the car to open the trunk lid.

I need to see about doing the same thing for my front trunk release.

Jack, that is a VERY good idea.

Thanks everyone. Unfortunately I have a luggage rack on the back of my Speedster and it's bolted throug the grill. My grill is held in with 4 screws but there is no sign of a bolt or latch mechanism in the grill area. I think I'm going to need to go in thru the underneath of the engine. Bummer. Any other suggestions. I've written to Henry at IM, but no reply yet.
Bruce

As a follow up, I did hear from Henry this morning. It was nice of him to take the time to respond. Here is his comment on my problem, and what I had decided was the only method to get at the latch.
Thanks to everyone for their input.
Hi Bruce:
Good to hear from you.
That is a problem! I think you will need to remove one of the engine fill panels from under the car and reach up to unlock the rear deck manually.
Sorry!
Henry
Henry Reisner
President
Intermeccanica International Inc.
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Maybe by dropping the muffler you might be able to get to the latch.

sawzall!

Hopefully Henry's (or maybe one of his crew as it seems he doesn't know about it) anticipated this: my car is a 2001 IM. There's no way to the latch through the grill BUT crawling under the car and looking up revealed an approx. 1" hole through the fiberglass that will allow a fairly long tool to work the lever of the latch and pop the hood open. (I'm talking about the engine compartment).

The hole is beefed up with resin as though that is it's purpose. In fact I can't imagine any other purpose.

Hopefully you've got the same setup. It's not easy to see at first on mine with all the exhaust piing in the way. I'd never seen it until running out to my car to see if I could help you.

Even with the hole I like the idea of an auxilliary release at both ends, hidden. It's on my list of things to do.