Doesn’t time fly when you’re out in the garage – one minute I’m happily grinding away thinking what I’m going to have for lunch, then a couple of moments pass and I’m running late for getting to an evening course at college 
I’ve been poking at stuff with the screwdriver, and the bit that’s annoyed me the most for the longest is the holes on the passenger side of the scuttle.
To do a proper repair here will, I guess, mean getting the screen out and either forming a repair piece or try and find a patch from a better shell. If I’m doing that, then I’d also be putting repair sections into the bits of the screen surround that have rusted away too. Either way, I ain’t got the time for that at the minute, so cleaned it all up, expanded and bevelled the holes with the countersink bit on the drill, then shoved in a good measure of glass fibre compound. It’ll be getting a layer of filler later too.
The offside rear quarter was also showing signs of the “bump” the previous owner had had, and thus why it came with a brand new Ford bumper that he’d never got round to fitting.
I’m starting to see why people say to drive these things in ignorance and leave the screwdriver in the toolbox. 
Made up a template and cut out a rough repair section, (as the proper repair panel is still on my shopping list, rather than in my garage).
Attached it and ground it down before anyone can see 
Both the inside panels need fixing up too, but as I can’t get to them yet, they’ll have to join the queue.
As an aside, why did Ford put a whole load of expanding foam in the rear quarter? I cut as much out as I could reach, but absolutely shat myself when I realised it was smouldering away behind the panel I’d just tacked on 
Right lunchtime’s over 
, back to the garage …