Cracked paint

Leave and enjoy as is, unless you're ready to do full paint. I had a few nicks and bruises on mine too, decided to do some "touch up here and there" but eventually it snowballed into a full blown restoration. When you do a full repaint, your interior will look old. That will be next, then your engine department will need refreshing. Next you'll hear "while we're in there..." It just goes on and on and on...

 

I don’t know but good paint/body guys are few and far between in Memphis. Maybe get some touch up paint and keep an eye on it.

 

The problem isn't just the paint. It's the underlying body work that's cracking too. It's probably best you just leave it be unless you are ready for a full up restoration.

 

He's right. There's a chunk missing. Will have to be filled in sooner or later.

Looks like someone tried to pry the door open or alignment is off a little.

 

A bigger picture would help, but if that's at the front triangle window of the door, it's original Factory filler, chipped out by door misalignment.

I had to study long on the picture, because if it was at the rear quarter panel window, you would have much larger problems where Body Shops often do away with a rubber sealant joint, between the roof panel and the quarter panel.

It's not prior "bodywork" per see but our cars were obviously assembled from lots of different panels, welded together and either leaded at the Factory (quarter panels to the rear of the door gaps) or polyester filler (over the hammer marks of assembly) which has that light yellow shade when exposed.

One of my 308s had badly cracked paint, at the base of the front windshield pillars...track use.

Your damage looks more like someone jacked up the door, trying to correct sag in the hinges.

 

That's actually not a bad door gap, from the Factory, the doors were hand fit to the body (as I describe above) with lots of massaging.
A new door will NEVER fit the old opening, in these cars.....

 

looks like the door opens to far, and the belt moulding hits

 

door loose? hinge pin issue? loose mounting bolts? just throwing ideas around

 

I would just glob some red touch up paint in there, several times, until it is built up, maybe mask it after it is built up and sand smooth with 1200 grit followed by 1800, by 2400 and call it good.

If you do that, you are the only person that would ever notice it

Doug

 

Or use a touch of filler then paint.

 

that would bother me to much not to fix.
every time i open the door i would focus on that spot.
if it has not been fixed the problem that caused this, i would definitely fix it too.

 

One of the pluses to owning a black one. I touch up mine with a sharpie

 

Maybe put a piece of red electrical tape over it and forget it's there. If you touch it up, it will crack again.

 

They also make red sharpie

 

I have that and did that too.