Gerahead's 71 Dart

The passenger side quarter is off. The metal under it is remarkably solid, sure can tell that this car wasn't from Minnesota! There is only a little bit of pitting on the lower part of the drop down. The wheel well lip will need a little hammer/dolly work to straighten it out. There were a couple of cuts made into the lip on the wheel house, looks like they were made to shrink it in?

Question: Is the wheel house supposed to be flat as it comes to the bend that forms the welding lip? It is hard to see in the pix, but it looks like part of the house has a bend in it that kind of follows the body line in the quarter panel over the wheel opening. I know that there was some damage to this part of the panel, so I'm not sure what it is supposed to look like.

What is the best way to trim the excess metal off the new skins? I have a pneumatic saw and I was thinking that might generate less heat than the cut-off wheel. Gotta go cut the grass and then I'll start grinding down the spot welds and hammer some steel :blob:. L8r