body work question rear valence, can I fix this? Progress with boring pics Options

[theleschyouknow]

I've had my car for about two years first year -what I call the year of living dangerously
I drove it whenever the weather allowed including a 914 weekend in the talimena hills
after a brokenclutch cable clevis it's been wheels in the air for close to a year I've been cleaning the engine and trans and suspension arms and cv's/axles and shocks & springs and engine tin I can reach of 40+ years of grease and dirt -a bunch of it likely from the leaking cv's which I'm sure I'll ask about soon in another thread
so here's my question for this thread:
my rear valence has one 'big' dent in it and couple small wrinkles in the bottom 1/4" or so 'return' flange that defines the bottom edge
pics following

having never done any kind of body work before this seems fairly straight forward to repair
what are the minimal tools required?
what kind of results could reasonably be expected?
could I (easily)screw it up beyond repair?

thanks for any comments or suggestions





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cjl

[theleschyouknow]

thanks Darren
I was kinda hoping you would chime in here. I have read your entire build thread (speaking of very good work) and that was one of the things that motivated me to try my hand at it that and staring at it every time I got under my car but I will revisit day 93

thanks for the advice I will try some of those techniques and although I am much more well versed in woodworking (I can build any thing you want with wood and a saw & make that mother scratcher look good) I am a bit hesitant to try clamping for some of the reasons you mentioned.

the majority of my hammering I have done with a body hammer that has about a 3 cm square slightly domed head on one side and a long flat rounded over blade that's about 3cm by ~.5 cm on the other I don't think I've crowned anything too badly yet

it's still over 100* (36* C)at 6:30 here and sun's beaming right into my garage so if it cools down enough before it gets too late I will smack on it some more tonite if not it may have to wait til the weekend

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