The hard part was the broken face bar:
After aluminum taping you can how hard it was to get in behind to affect the repair:
After welding and adding a bunch of extra material and mesh. This area wont be seen once the panel is installed:
After the repair:
And here's the final product. The inside joke about these polyethylene valance is that most T/A guys consider them made out of "unobtanium" since they were never offered as a service part and the only ones out there were the ones that were installed on the cars originally in early 1972 and early 1973. (There was no late 72 as the UAW-GM strike shut down the F-body plant in April 1972 until the 1973 model year) Once these valances broke (and they all did) the dealers replaced them under warranty with the steel version which did not have the upper face bars which really make the nose of these cars flow into the grill.
