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The first thing that I decided to address on the body were the areas the previous owner had cut out on the panel sides. This gave me a chance to brush up on my rusty welding skills and avoid jumping into the deep end with panel fab.

Unfortunately on the panel sides the previous owner had cut below the fore/aft body line and my plan was to cut just above this feature for installation of the bed cap. The sections he had cut out were included in the parts that he had sent, so a simply cut the small portion out I needed and grafted it to fill the void. I really didn't take a ton of pics on this particular effort but I did find a few pics of the area. It will take some work later to trim down the welds and re-establish the body lines with filler but it was good enough to move on to all the many other repairs.