For my daily driver I took a less ambitious approach. 1st I bought an 82 Trans Am with v8 and a stick for $650. It needed alot of mechanical work as just about everything on it was worn out or just plain done wrong. Probably the biggest cosmetic flaw was that the passenger rear fender was crushed up pretty bad as the previous owner had not set the parking brake and it rolled back and hit a telephone pole, or so he had said. Fortunately, the work the previous owner had done on the fender had helped and not made the damage worse. He used a hydraulic jack to push out the fender out to roughly where it should be.
rear fender damage
This is what the rear fender looked like when I started. It looks like a couple of broad dents that could easily be knocked out, but its a little more complicated than that. As it is a unibody structure there are brackets spot welded on top of the wheelwell on both the inner and outer and then there is an inner quarter panel section, I s'pose for reinforcement that I will have to replace. There is also the spare tire carrier bracket that had to come out before I could gain access to most of the panel. I decided to try on this first as the TA was less valuable than the GTO and the parts are not as expensive if I messed up. But I was confident.
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