To Louver or not to Louver that is .......

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My 68 shorty is almost all original. The tail gate is pretty banged up. The letter where all bashed in. No way did I have the skill to straighten it. Since it was the easiest panel to remove I started there. I figured no real risk since I would most likly buy a repro anyway. So I cut out the letters and welded in plate with my HF flux core weld. Wow did I warp everything. It required about .15 of fiberglass and several hours with a body file to level it. I have since got a nice Lincoln Mig and some training.

Well I recently got the news I am going to be a daddy again. I am going to have one in collage and one in diapers. Needless to say my budget just went from what I want to spend to just a little above zero.

The way I see it I have 3 options, One finsh up a couple of low spots and move one to other things. Second Cut out all the glass and weld in new metal Third, I pick this out of the scrap today(see pic 3) Its 16 gage I was thinking louvers. I am going to drop the truck and some kind of rims and most likly change the color to red and a cowl hood. Are louvers hacky now? Seems like doing two rows across the letter area would be easy?

I know no one can tell me what I like but I am really on the fence, hopfully a discussion will help me decide.

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