Cowl repair start

Didnt have much time to work on it today, but I got the lead melted off on the passenger side and did a few more spot drills. Decided to cut a small section off to see what I'm looking at....it's not pretty at all......may be re-thinking the whole cowl section replacement versus patch panels.......ggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrr.............

There is a complete cowl from a 65 that looked really promising and fairly cheap on ebay the sale location was Alabama

May want to check it out for replacement sections. In my experience decent cowl sheet metal is hard to come by