It sure looked bad at first. Then it looked worse.

Almost everywhere I looked it was the same story.

Another.

I really didn't even think I was going to need gutters!

I could have actually used a whole roof!

This didn't even look that bad until I hit it with the wire wheel!

OK, so before anyone gets too dicouraged, we better get to the promising pics. I was pretty concerned there wouldn't be any good metal to be found but it wasn't as bad as it looked. Still a bunch of work but doable.

One at a time I cleand the areas up and treated with POR15 and started making patches.

The welding and fab work took almost three days but it really was fun seeing it come together!

I ran out of poster board for making templates so I ran to the "craft store" and got some more.

Now we're back in business!

I made the strip alomg the back from two pieces with the shrinker/stretcher. It fit perfectly and actually only took about an hour start to finish.

Here I've got it all clamped in and ready for welding.

Here it's welded and ground smooth. These were the last spot welds the HF gun was able to make before it's demise.

Here's some more of the drivers side.

It really did go surprisingly well.

That's about it for the drivers side.

One more of the front patch.

Now off to the passenger front corner.

As you can see, I had to cut pretty far to find solid metal on this one.