RicodJour wrote:

But I think we agree that Bondo wouldn't be our first choice in the
OP's situation.

I don't have a clue how to solve the problem at hand, but if you live
in the "Rust Belt" for a while and see all those hulks of sheet metal
driving around with the Bondo patches that have fallen off after a
couple of years, you soon lose any interest in the stuff except to fix
up junkers and dump them.


Lew