resto 340-4-speed in progress. already hit jackpot

to be honest, i cut out all the rust completly, but tried to keep the old peice as a template. then once i got it all cut out, i took the old peice and flattened it out, including where it bends under, to the spotwelds on the trunk extensions. this way, i could get a exact shape, even if my cuts were not straight. then traced it onto a old trunklid that i had, and cut the marker line off. once i cut the new peice out, i measured the old one, from the bottom under the car, to where the bend starts.iw was 1 inch exactly.
in my shed i have a homemade work bench, that i took a pallet and nailed it to a 2x4 that runs from one side of the shed to the other. well, where the pallet meets the 2x4, i was able to just slide the sheet of metal in that 1 inch, and just lightly, and slowly bent the metal to the shape of the quarter.
i never thought it would be so easy to fab my own peice of lower quarter. it fit like a glove, and i did not have to grind it at all to fit.
it was a little harder to weld it, cause it is easy to just blow holes through everything.
then after i got the lower quarter done, i cut out the lip the goes into the wheelwell, and fabbed and welded that in too.