i haven't had a chance to remove that strip off my '87 yet but we'll see what they did to get the trim on there, tomorrow perhaps. some of the panels on my car have the vin tags and some don't. it's been painted once. now i'm really curious.

on my '88 TE the lower strip is broken around where it goes onto the clips, probably as you say from deteriorated plastic.

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