In a message dated 7/22/04 2:21:20 PM, jstef@FLASH.NET writes:

<< What I really need is advice on how to proceed fixing this myself. >>

Dear Joe,

You are a good and decent man who has suffered a great loss.  I believe that
goodness is ***always*** rewarded . . . we just cannot pick the time.  If you
approach an automobile body repairman who is ***also*** a decent human being,
he might show you some kindness and do a presentable repair for little money.
In my experience, a competent automobile body repairman will first try to
restore the dented metal.  They call this "roughing out" and they prefer to do
"roughing out" to replacing automobile body panels.  Since the "roughing out"
seems to require ***great*** skill and specialized tools, perhaps you could find
someone to do that portion of the project for you then you could do the
remainder of the work yourself.

I will pray that an angel crosses your path and leads you out of your
predicament.

Pinky