Paint matching

[Ghoste]

I found a decklid that is in much better shape than the one on my car.  If I try and get the color matched to put it on in place of the old one, can I expect it to be pretty close?

[694spdRT]

If you have a good painter it should not be a problem. My buddy has a bittersweet '69 AMX with an older metal flake finish and he had to have a front fender touched up after a little accident. Once it was repaired and blended the repair is not noticeable.

[Ghoste]

Yeah, I've seen a lot of great blow-in's but my worry was with it being such a large section and no blending in really, am I not just begging for a glaring mistake?

[694spdRT]

I was trying to look at your signature pic but, I can't tell real well . Doesn't the roofline come down and help break up the rear area? Even if it is off a little that would help hide the transition.

[Ghoste]

No, there is about a six inch panel that goes all the way around the deck lid.  On either side of it and under the back light.  I could live with it if it's close because the car will need a complete body job, well, it needs it now.  But if it's a real obvious change, I'm not sure I could take it being like that for the next year.

[Drop Top]

It greatly depends on the one doing the matching and how bad the rest of the paint has faded. You say the rest of the car needs painted anyway. I would buy the deck lid and put it away in the rafters. Then when you get the car painted thats when you bring out the other lid. No need in doing it twice. You've gone this long with it. Whats another year? If the paint on the car is faded its going to be really hard to match without fading/blending into the 1/4s and that adds to the expence of the job greatlly.

[Ghoste]

It's not that faded, it just needs some bodywork and the repaint is obviously going to be needed after that.  It's just that with this year being the 40th anniversary of the Charger, there are a lot of shows happening for the fastbacks so it'd be nice to hit some of them and have the car looking as nice as I can reasonably make it.
The deck lid that is currently on the car looks like it was probably rusted on the lip above the taillights.  I'm only guessing but it appears that it was a difficult (or impossible) spot to try and patch so they rolled the lip back a little and in effect made the panel shorter.  Now when you're behind the car, it gives the appearance of the trunk being opened a 1/4 inch.  No big deal but one of those things that bug you.