I pulled the car apart (pretty darned easy) to fix the busted mounting tabs on the headlight housing...
^ All 3 mounting tabs on the housing were busted. I scabbed them back on with wee screws and bits of sheet metal, then epoxied over the works.
I wasn't planning to do any cosmetic stuff to the car, but while I had the front end apart, I figured I might as well pull the quarter panel and try my hand at a bit of paintless dent repair.
The metal is barely thicker than tinfoil, so I just bent the panel by hand & mostly used wooden kitchen appliances to work the creases out:
It turned out OK. Good enough that the average person might not notice the small ripples left behind. I dabbed some touch-up silver where the factory paint cracked off from being bent too sharply.
Before & after!
The bumper cover is still a bit of a mess... I'll look at that in the spring. It only takes a couple of minutes to take off the car.
If the previous owner had put this through insurance, it would have been a $1500-2000 bill.