I eventually fixed it all up, repainted it myself, and then sold it a couple
of years later. I'm not sure the result was worth all the work, however. I
couldn't get much of a price for the car even though it looked very nice
(until you looked underneath, where you could still see plenty of rust.) It
certainly would not have paid to have a body shop do the work, as it would
have cost more than what I got for the car.
So what do you expect from a 10-year-old car? Not everybody's going to keep
them pristine. Even Columbo's looked pretty beat up.
Egon