Canary94GT

My 1994 stang sat under a pine tree for like 10 years, and unfortunately pine needles, pollen, leaves, dirt, etc gathered in the area outside the trunk, under the trunk lid (where the water runs off the car and through the trunk lid, down the bumper; ie. not visible unless trunk is open). It must have sat there for a long time because when I tried to clean it off, some paint came with.

What should I do to protect this area, will a good (and frequent) wax do? The paint on the rest of the car is just fine, so a full-blown paint job is really unnecessary, but I'd be afraid of having a paint job done to just that area around the trunk seal (because of paint-matching and possibility of them screwing up other areas of paint). I also don't want to do something that would degrade the value of the car.

maxshuty

Well to help you can pickup a bottle of touchup paint that you apply yourself with a little brush (included in the bottle of touchup paint). I'd go to the dealer and try and get the exact colorof your car if they have it available.
Clean it good, apply some of that paint, let dry, then I'd say do a really good wax all around the car.
I've gotta wax my car too... I've never waxed it in the year I've owned it :S

Canary94GT

Hmm, that would be awesome if Ford had the canary paint still, I definitely wouldn't be afraid of me (or someone else) applying it to my car... it's kind of in a hard-to-see place anyway.

Oh and I did just wax the entire car on Friday and re-waxed some areas yesterday. Problem is that my dad rarely waxed the car when he owned it, and whoever washed it never really paid attention to the trunk area.

I will never neglect that area again though... grrr

Thanks for the response Max.