Zoltan,

A quick question to the body-guy inlaw dad brought the following answers:
- old paint is usually faded. You can have a color spectrometer match the color on the car, but why?
- A good body man can fade/sand the new paint into the old paint. This may or not be noticable depending on how off the two colors are.
- if some of the seams are failing then most likely ALL of the seams are failing. Suggestion was to suck it up and start digging out every inch of the stuff, starting w/ the places obviously cracked. Remove, fix rust, replace, paint.
- by the time you finish all the cracks, you'll want a new paint job :) Especially after the windows are pulled to fix the rust behind there.
- bad cauk probably means thin paint, as well. Again, prep for a full paint. Not cheap.

He was real helpful -- basically told me to have fun and just do it. Joy. Time to start saving...

john