With the motor in place I am now able to remount the cab and begin the final bodywork and fab up the Tranny tunnel.

First step: Measure and shear off a piece of 18 Gauge steel:

Then layout the panel. The misshapen "lump" image was a guess based upon placing the panel on the truck floor and doing a hand drawing. I then drew the matching sided form using a grid.

This is my makeshift  "stump" for doing the metal shaping.

Hammer and fit and hammer and fit and..

After a couple of fittings I decided to make a brace that will double as a form for the ends of the tunnel. First step is to make a piece of 1"x1" angle out of 18 gauge.

Then shrink/stretch to shape. It turned out the wonderful 90 degree bend was too much.

and Fit and shrink and stretch and fit and...

This process showed me that I needed more shape in the end of the tunnel. So....

More hammering...fitting...hammering...damn my arm is tired. The first casualty:

To the bench for a substitute:

and hammer and fit and hammer and fit and... Do you sense a theme yet?????

This shows the expanded work area as disclosed by my template/brace.