G'day All,

Thanks again for all the hints.  The culprit was sikaflex.  So as suggested, a knife in behind the strip did the trick.  Not having a "puppy" knife :-), I used a carving knife.

Just to answer a few other questions, the car is a special - sedan.  And my confession.  She is a bitsa.  It's got an HR front end, a Celica 5 speed on the floor, and what I'm told is a "stage 2" red motor (186), a lumpy cam, and a few other changes - I hope this doesn't get me kicked out of the forum :-)

Thanks all.  I might not have been clear enough.

I've actually got all of the nuts off - at least as far as I can tell, so I thought the trim would then come off.  However, it seems to be solidly stuck on toward the middle of the trim.  By feel I find the holes where it seems to be stuck, and I can poke my screw driver into the holes (the middle three holes did have nuts and bolts).  When I push, the trim comes away from the body enough to allow me to put a butter knife into the gap, and there seems to be two spots where the knife will not pass.  They are sitting between holes, and seem to be about 3cm long, and firmly stuck to the body work.  Is it normal?  (I'm suspecting a previous owner may have "improved" things with regard to fixing the trim on).

I've borrowed a flexible camera to make sure there are no more nuts, and will suss it out over the weekend.

I am loathed to take to whole panel off at this stage, as I'm not confident with doing this, but.....

G'day all,

First post...

I have a '59? FC and there is a bit of rust coming through the front left, and it goes under the chrome trim. I need to remove the trim to treat the panel. I have found all the nuts behind the panel, and thought that the trim should just come off. However, there seems to be some sort of thing under the trim holding it firmly in place. Is this normal? If so how do I get the trim off? If not normal...... I don't want to prise the trim off to hard in case I bent it !!

Any ideas?