New guy here

thanks for the welcomes, everyone- nice to see a bunch from the Great White North here:)

a replacement crossmember isn't a problem as my brother has a bunch of parts cars in various states of disassembly. From the way he described it (the car is at his shop right now- he's going to be the repairman:D) there's a fair bit of work to do to get the crossmember out and back in...