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I pulled the Nova out yesterday for the first time this year (I store it at my Aunt's garage). To my horror, the passenger door has been scratched somehow.
(On a side note, I also had an encounter with a giant spider and injured my toe - among other things, yesterday was Murphy's Law in action).
My finger nail catches it. Up close, it looks something like this (a very complicated drawing I whipped up with MS Paint
):
So, what are my options?
I'm guessing this one is too deep for anything out there like Simoniz Fix It. I'm dreading the thought of having to get the entire door repainted - mostly because the paint is a custom mixture and will be VERY difficult to match perfectly. I don't want to have a dark spot or a light spot or anything like that. The guy who did the car doesn't work at the body shop anymore, and he had the details of the mixture recorded somewhere, but I don't know what would have happened to those records - and the small bottle of touch-up paint I have is dried up (not that I think that would look even remotely passable on a spot like that anyway).

I don't know what to do...very sick to my stomach.

My finger nail catches it. Up close, it looks something like this (a very complicated drawing I whipped up with MS Paint

So, what are my options?
I'm guessing this one is too deep for anything out there like Simoniz Fix It. I'm dreading the thought of having to get the entire door repainted - mostly because the paint is a custom mixture and will be VERY difficult to match perfectly. I don't want to have a dark spot or a light spot or anything like that. The guy who did the car doesn't work at the body shop anymore, and he had the details of the mixture recorded somewhere, but I don't know what would have happened to those records - and the small bottle of touch-up paint I have is dried up (not that I think that would look even remotely passable on a spot like that anyway).
I don't know what to do...very sick to my stomach.