keep the faith,mine was like yours,stripped it,then took it round a few places where everybody promised to weld it,bougt loads and loads of bits for it,couldnt get it welded so i sold all the bits,actually a guy with no license up your way bought some bits off me for his escort cab,got a cossie now,same story,should get it back this week from having a 3k respray!woohoo.