Gerahead's 71 Dart

......got the driver's side quarterpanel cut out over the weekend:blob: and everything looked to be in pretty good shape. Found a couple more "extra" bolts lying in the canyon. In fact, one of them was glued in place with bondo. The outer wheel house wasn't all boogered up and the lip was pretty solid. Then I cut the last of the lower quarter away :violent1:. You may recall from a couple of pages back that I found where a PO had just slathered some mud into a rust hole behind the wheel, rather than fixing it. Well, it turns out that the trunk extension is rusted through in a couple of spots around the drain hole and is pretty pitted over the full length, about a 1/3rd of the way up. Looks like I will be getting a new extension panel in the mail. I really wasn't thinking that I would have this to deal with.
So the rest of the drop-off is really solid...............do I replace the whole thing........or find a convenient spot, whack it off and just replace what needs replacin'? It looks like it will be a lot easier to just replace the rusted steel rather than the whole panel. Wadda ya think? Thanks.