OK – done with breakfast and already had the Sharpie out scribbling on the car. Top line is where the new quarter panel section will reach up to. Other lines are where I’m going to cut using the plasma cutter. Here goes nothing.

Got the big piece cut out, and cut off the bad piece of the outer wheelhouse as well. Looks like the rust is mostly staying low on the car – which is good. Gotta burn through some stripping wheels now.

After more trimming and cleaning, I finally got the outer wheelhouse ‘section’ test-fitted in there. Also used the pneumatic flange tool to ‘step’ the car’s sheet metal to accept the new quarter skin and stripped the paint.

I got the new wheelhouse section trimmed up and welded in, along with the trunk drop-off (after test-fitting the quarter section as well). Finished up with some seam sealer and Rust Bullet on the places I’ll never see again.

Different angle – also cleaned all the old undercoating and stuff from the inside of the wheel well. Just gotta stick the quart panel section on now (next weekend’s fun).