He's dead Jim

I brought my car in to get the exhaust fixed, and they politely rolled it back outside and declared it dead.

Hold up.

So they told me that the thing I knew was broken was going to cost a mint to fix, which I more or less expected. But then he said not to bother because there was more rust than frame holding the back end together.

You know those car guys that get old rusty buckets from the 60's and spend years and a fortune putting them together and making them driveable? Yea that's what it's gonna take. He advised me to not hit any potholes on the way home. 

It's still technically street legal until August, so I have time to figure this out.