If anybody is interested here is a couple of pictures of before during and after, I still have a few things to finish and my welds are ugly but a good grinder will fix that. I set the part in my truck to see how it will look and it looks great. I need to clean and seal everything before I put this in. The sad thing is nobody will ever see this part after the carpet goes in.
http://home.columbus.rr.com/chevy57/default.htm
If you are using a modem this may load a bit slow.

Ed