A second look

I pulled the pan out from under the car to see what was going on with the underside-maybe my first look was too quick and there IS a chance I can save the rails of the pan and weld in far less expensive sections vs. entire pan halves.

They did what I've seen more than once...the fuel line got clogged and instead of properly fixing it, someone added a second fuel line to the underside of the car and then screwed it to the tunnel-leaving 10 small screw holes.  I removed that as well-pondering the act of removing the entire bottom portion to get to the tunnel innards and building a jig for the entire pan...I'm going to think on that for a while.

The rear brakes off of the 65 were functional.  They don't look great but they will get rebuilt.