Looking for one thing and finding another

 Thursday night, I made the 100+ mile drive in a rain storm to buy a front beam and some engine tin.

The goal was to get a front beam that needed very little work and I could clean, repaint and mount it on the pan.

I arrived to find the last two beams available - rusted through to the point of being nearly scrap metal status.  Needless to say - I didn't buy one.  I did, however, find a nice set of early engine tins, a later set of tops and a nice 12 volt fan shroud - so I bought those pieces.

Fan shroud still has the stickers, is fairly straight and should clean up nicely.

The slightly later engine tin pieces.