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

[Darren C]

"one question regarding the bottom return flange:
there are three support 'brackets' on the backside of the valance two 'vertical' ones about 3cm wide at equidistant midpoints and one about 20cm that mirrors the muffler cut out for backside support. At several spots where the flange meets these brackets to varying degrees it looks like the flange is either mis-shapened around those bracket connections or the brackets themselves are out of alignment. Anybody else notice this?"

Can you post a couple of pictures so that we can compare yours with our brackets. Thanks