Windshield Trim Removal Tool?

I moved this from the bench... no replies there. I did get a PM but still looking for input.

I'm about to remove the windshield trim on my Buick. In the factory body manual, it shows a Kent-Moore tool to disengage the trim. I've scoured the internet, and all I could find was this "10 in one super tool", and I prefer seperate tools that work well, not one tool that works okay. Here is that tool:

For the lack of finding an original looking tool, will this 10 in 1 jobbie work to pull my windshield trim off? Am I better off using a bent screwdriver? It looks like the KM tool is a modified paint lid opener.

Please forward any advice.

Here is the factory tool:

 

Other pic from FSM. Looking for any input.

 

Bamacat
As I remember we used a half moon shaped tool that you ran under the side of the clip and turned the handle to the side as in your picture to release the clips. This was when your car was new so take what I remember with a grain of salt as they say. o No:

 

I have a 10-in-1 tool

Bama Wildcat,
I have one of the 10-in-1 tools you referred to.....I've used it on a '49 Caddy, '53 Studebaker, '71 GTO, etc. etc. The point being this is one of the few "all-in-one" tools that is actually worth it. It also works well for removing door panels and interior trim (both plastic and metal)....

Anybody that does any trim removal, paint work, or interior restoration should have one of these in their toolbox...... Most good mom&pop parts stores have them, as do most paint and body supply houses.

Whatever method you use, just GO SLOW!!!! Use your ears too...the metal will tell you if you are approaching it's crease threshold.

On another note, to get the fin trim off a '53 Stude Commander, I modified a set of external snap ring pliers (welded small tabs on both ears), and when you squeezed the pliers, the tabs gently forced the trim apart from the body....worked real well. I purposely made them "flimsy" enough, so that THEY would break before the trim bent/broke/creased.

Anyway, good luck!

 

Judd,

Does this tool look like what you used?

 

It probably works in the same maner as the one I remember but I remember the tool having one rounder end and hooks on both sides of the head.