65 Ambassador stuff needed and General rambling

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I know this is probably a waste of time, but would anyone in the southwest have a 65 or 66 Classic or Ambassador with a solid as a rock upper cowl panel in it that is interested in cutting it out?
  Last night I stripped the bumper and filler below the grill, the right fender and cleaned out another 5 lbs of rodent nests. All I can do when I look at the feeding troughs they put in these cars under the fenders is think, "WHAT THE HELL WHERE THEY THINKING"! Once there is one rust hole anywhere big enough for a mouse to move in boy do they! The car is just plain rusty in the upper fender trough and under the wiper motor. It's bad. No other way to put it. It rusted and the creatures moved in and they pee'd on it and boy did the rot go to town. 
  I'm determined to fix the d#%ned thing. My problem is in figuring out how I want to go about doing it. Dick Datsons method is appealing and the car is solid everywhere that it matters, I've jacked it up under the door latch area on both sides and the doors still open and close fine. There is no rot in any of the rockers or the added convertible bracing at all. If I could get my hands on a rust free upper cowl panel. I would cut mine off as needed to get in and repair the structure to make the inner cowl solid and weather proof to the firewall again. Then either patch the upper cowl or replace it as an entire piece.
  The troughs are rusted and pitted severely in the bottoms. Only rusted completely through in one or two spots. I'm trying to deside how to do those too. patching the couple of rust throughs and fiberglassing the whole trough sounds like a plan. Or patching the trough and plating over the trough is second idea, but not one I'm real hip on. Third idea is to replace the trough with a piece of roll bar tubing cross tied to the inner lip. Another thought is to fiberglass repair the trough and add the roll bar tube right down the center anyways.
  I've got some pictures of the rot if anyone wants to see what a mess I've got here.
For  a while I was sitting on the Oh the hell with this project fence, But I think I'm going to stick with it. I'm taking pictures the whole way as I go. If I sell this thing at some point I want people to know exactly what they are buying.
  Another part I could use is the mounting plate for the elctric wiper motor. This one is rusted in half!
  
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV