Windshield Molding Clip Removal

[Kisner]

Can anyone give me some tips on how to remove the molding around the front and rear glass on my 68 Mustang?

I finished restoring the car last winter and installed the front and rear glass with all new gaskets, molding clips, and gobs of sealant. I knew I wouldn't water test them until this spring due to the cold, and was so confident they couldn't possibly leak, I went ahead and snapped on all the molding.

Well, just like my luck runs they both slightly leak and need to add some more sealant. Since I wasn't sure how to remove the molding from the clips and not wanting to damage the paint, I thought I was being smart and took to what I thought was a reputable nationwide company that specializes in glass removal and installation - "Dixie Glass." To make an already long story short, they chipped the hell out of the paint around the rear glass, gave up because they didn't want to do any more damage, then backed my show-quality, wet-sanded, buffed out candayapple red paint job right out the shop door and along side a sheet of glass that took off a massive amount of paint on the passenger side (closest I ever came to going to jail for manslaughter). They paid for me for the damage but it didn't help.

I have now vowed to do all repair work myself no matter what and nobody will touch it again. So back to my question - I bought the molding clip tool but can't figure out how to get it in under the molding to somehow spring the clips to release the molding. It appears the tool will have to go in under the molding but to get down under the clip looks like you'd have to bend the molding back quite a bit. Not sure if it will go back to original shape or not if I do that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. P.S. for anyone thinking of taking their vehicles to "Dixie Glass" for any kind of work - forget it - they're idiots - at least the ones in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.