The rear fender doesn't bolt on for the wagon. The salvage yards that carry old Subies won't let you use torches, sawsalls, or any tools to cut body parts off. It has to be removable via bolts. It's their insurance that restricts how their customers can remove parts. That means I cannot cur off a body panel to use it on my vehicle.
On my old '92, the rear fender has rusted out on the backside of the wheel well. About 2 inches of the lower lip is gone (at the bottom of the metal panel to which the lower vinyl skirt attaches) so one bolt won't support the front of the vinyl skirt. About the same is missing for the wheel well lip. There is a hole in the side panel at this corner (wheel well and lower side skirt). I don't have any means of bending out a new metal piece to overlay that area. So I figured to frankencar the rusted out spot by cutting off the rear panel from a car at the salvage yard, cut it to size by first making a template, prep the old fender, and attach the cut-out piece atop that spot. There is room between the lower lip and the vinyl skirt to position another lip in there and the wheel well lip would just overlap. I'd then run the top cut line straight back at the height of the gas cap opening on the other side (since that side has a rust out, too), use some bondo, and basically have an edge run horizoontall to the rear. Would look good enough to me and might even look good overall. Problem is in getting the fender from which I can cut out the piece to lay atop the old piece where the rust gets cut out..
I can't get a chunk of th rear fender from the salvage yard. I can't find Subies at any other salvage yard except for these two yards that won't let me cut out body metal. So I'm wondering if the shape of the rear fenders on a sedan model might match. Maybe the rear fenders on a sedan are bolted on so then I could remove them, cut them to get out a lower piece and frankenstein my car that way. But it would require the shape of the fender on the sedan to be a match at the bottom of the fender. So, does anyone know if the lower portion of a rear fender on a 90-94 Legacy *sedan* might match the the shape of the lower part of the affixed fender panel on a 92 Legacy *wagon*? The sedan's fender might be shorter but that's not critical (but then I would have to run the "bead" at the visible overlay edge in a square shape). It's the area of about 4 inches up and 4 inches back from the corner of the wheel well and lower viny side skirt (i.e., bottom edge of rear panel behind wheel) that I would need to overlap.
I might've tried using sheet metal but I have no means of bending out a nice straight lip at the bottom and also a lip for the wheel well. I figured to cut out a piece of a junk car that included those lips and would cover the opening after removing the rusted metal. If the salvage yard gets in a 90-94 Legacy sedan and *if* the rear fenders on a sedan bolt into place then I can grab one and snip out the corner with lips to cover my rust out.