1970 Dart Swinger - father and son project

I have taken a few pictures at the urging of FABO members and am posting them here. what we have is patches for both rear quarters on the bottom. I have pictures of both sides with the new patches held on with screws as fit check, ready to weld in place. I tool one off so we can see the inner patch, note that we even formed the bead rolls so it will look factory once we finish, though I used a 5 lb maul, not a bead roller. If you look close you will see that I used a flanger to prepare the quarter to receive the new patches, I have found that it creates a barrier to assist in controlling any warpage which the welding wants to create. When I worked in the body shop back in the seventies we used to braze these in place. I have access to a wire feed now and think that produces better results, but will practice on the floor boards to see if I can weld good enough to pass, if I don't think I can then I will braze them as I know I can make that work. Also did some work with a porta-power on the drivers quarter and door, I think I can save these as have fixed worse. We ground the lower drivers quarter because it had bondo in it and I thought it was rusty, turns out it was bent, which we will fix. (remember - no money but we have skills!) Also included a picture of the drivers floor pan after removal, this is gonna be much harder to fab because of the complex angles. I think either need to make it in multiple parts or , please no - BUY a part! Many of you have indicated there are decent repo parts available. But how can I pay $500 for quarters when I paid $250 for the car? Besides I like being married and id I bought quarters for this car that might be in doubt! Besides this is a budget build and I really like that approach to life, something to do with being a farm boy that makes it real hard to pay someone to do something I can do myself.

Anyway, here are the pictures as promised, included a few pictures of my T/A motor ready to install, recently ground the bumps off the bump stick, expensive hobby and darned hard way to learn about oil composition. I included the pics for two reasons, one is my son says to just drop it into the dart, the second is because I saw somewhere a pic of 3 deuces that just looked wrong, center carb was out of position, and the guy was saying he could not fit air cleaners onto it. The aircleaners don't fit because something is messed on the manifold! Also, took the manifold off so you can see what a T/A intake looks like when you grind the "bump" out of the intake port, this is why the pushrods are crooked so the ports can be made bigger, they are the same size as any other 340 out of the factory. Anyway, thanks to all for the great support out there.