After my favorite thing in the world (drilling out spot-welds – yay…) here we are with no more yucky rusted-out metal.

Then, after having a hard time keeping the ‘patch’ piece from the junkyard steady to drill out more spot-welds on it, I decided to use the plasma cutter to just burn through the spot-welds. Things went a lot faster from that point. Here’s the ‘patch’ being test-fitted before media blasting – almost perfect!

While I was having fun test-fitting (and burned out the spot-welds from the old panel on the driver side), I decided to see what it would look like with the new tail light panel in there as well. I’m thinking this is going to work out, after all!

Here’s a shot of the sub-frame connectors welded in – I wish this weld would’ve come out better, but it’s not the worst one, and only one of a few that don’t actually look good. I AM getting better… really.