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That colour will look great!

Thanks. I already did that; with the cowl covered, there's no water leaking.

Thanks for the responses. The leak is definitely not coming from the heater core. I have removed the debris shield and thoroughly cleaned and inspected the inside of the cowl for as far as I could reach and see. So far, I haven't found any rust, not even surface rust (CA car). So, removing the...

I have water leaking from the cowl into the car, I suspect a clogged cowl drain, on the right side, behind the fender. So I was planning to remove the rightside fender, and while I'm at it, also take the opportunity to do some rust prevention since I've never been behind there. Today, I found...

I used a Dremel to grind it away. It was a terrible job and took me hours and several grinding stones, but it did the job.

I do everything myself, except for welding and bondo. Preparing and painting (outside only) a rustfree XXL car takes me about 150 hours of work. And that is without any finishing work on the new coat. When there's rust involved (as there usually is), the extra hours are adding up really fast...

Despite the exceptional heat today (105), I took the opportunity to put her outside make some pictures of the result so far:

Well, it was quite a hassle but we took our time and came up with the next best match we could find. The best match to the existing colour on the inner decklid was with a little more green; the car would have turned out too green I'm afraid. So we chose the best matching colour towards blue. I...

@Samplingman: Indeed it does. Nice! Perhaps I should have mentioned that I live in NL, so no single stage paint available, and not searching for a paint supplier. @CBODY67: Funny that you mention that GM color; my paint guy found the same close(est) match using his spectrometer. I'll stick to...

Gonna give the ol' fat lady a fresh coat. But my paint guy doesn't seem te be able to get his hands on the recipe for that color. Not even by using paintref.com Using a color spectrum will do the job... But using the original formula is preferred. B7 is the color, supposed te be called "jubilee...