Time to start carving the quarter panel!

Margery "What the hell are you doing cutting up a perfectly good car?"

 

After cutting out the spot welds - and taking the panel out in pieces... this is what I was left with.

Here's whats left underneath - lots of surface rust and some holes around the front and rear of the outer wheelhouse.  Need to fill in those spots and cut out the original outer wheelhouse.

Following that, paint all teh interior structure so it never has a chance to rust again.

As a strange update after the fact - found a piece of a tree in the rocker panel when I opened it up.  The diameter of it was that of a quarter... so I've got no clue how it got in there originally.

Who knows.