Opinions on a possible project car w/ pics

General karthief said:

Look at the frame section behind the strut tower, you will notice where it attaches to the tower and back by the toe board, kinda hard to describe, looks like tabs that are welded from frame section to tower, is it crushed?
Same for the frame section in front of the tower. On a side impact (depending on point/angle of impact) check the bottom of those same areas and also the area between the subframe and pinch weld on the outboard portion of the floor pan around point of impact.
Not knowing impact data, I ask you:
Are the doors aligned with the roof, windshield post and rear quarter, fender/door/hood alignment good?
Investigate carefully.
I'll give you a hint, look at the bolts that hold the nose to the radiator support in the pic.

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I haven’t been able to see it in person yet, but u planned on taking some simple measurements from each strut to the opposite side front corner of the engine bay, checking the distance between the strut top hats, and then from the center of the strut back to the firewall. I also am going to try to look underneath to see if any of the bolts on the k member are wallowed out, but I’ll check the radiator mounting tabs as well. I figured with those three checks I should be able to figure out if something got whacked hard enough to be a real problem, or if someone just wrinkled it a bit and it can be repaired.

IF it’s not a walk-away, could I get away with just cutting out and rewelding some sheetmetal? Might even get lucky enough to find a front clip donor somewhere (doubtful, as it’s been hard enough just to find a good project car to begin with)