Battle of the bulge part 1

Back in the garage last night with the aim of repairing the N/S deformation/bumper mounting panel which to remind you looked like this after trimming:

I had pre cut some repair patches and after a couple of hours of triming, welding and grinding it looks like this now:

With a small addition of some filler that will look as good as new, there might be some repairs that need doing to the lip but can not really tell until the panel is cut out and I have no money for a new one at the moment :o(

I welded in a plate to start fixing the plate at the bottom but the profile went a bit Pete Tong when it was bent in to meet the bottom lip of the 'Inner front panel'.

After the 9 O'clock watershed (The garage faces OAP sheltered accomodation) I decided to have a go with the new Black and Decker 'Bullet' drills to get the single screw out from the table mounting plate on the floor... 3 seconds to drill it out... so much for the 6 Titanium coated drills that I had tried to use before.