Well, on to better things. I knew the lower cowl with the air vents was bad on the wagon - just didn’t really realize how bad. First two pics are laying on the floor shooting up towards the holes
So with the help of my master body man friend we just cut the upper cowl off since I have a rust-free one. The next two pics are looking in from the top. I easily removed the extremely rusted away water barrier from the driver’s side. Yep, California cars do rust!