yes George, not only we don't need your political views here, telling us to "lump it" is even more unwelcome, nobody is trying to convince you to buy Chinese - if you want to insist on only NOS parts for your truck, even though no one can tell the difference between made in the US in the 50's and made in the US last week, fly at it .... but as I pointed out, any coating on your "restored" exhaust system is not "original"
so for your original question "how would you do it", the answer is have a new one made the right shape and put it on
Bill
