I'm restoring a 1958 MGA and had to replace the glass (delaminating). I'd like to re-use the 1977 inspection stickers as these are likely telling of the last time the car was on the road - and kinda cool.
Take some images and get them remade. Place local to me used to make all sorts of stickers for various products and could take an image and turn it into a sticker.
They're made to NOT come off, so they can't be liberated onto other cars. As said before, any good sign shop can do that , the only downside is generally the stickers they produce are adhesive BACKED. what you could do is have them use a separate clear vinyl sticker to overlay it and hold it to the glass
I have seen the glass guys soak the older paper ones that had a wet to stick adhesive. One the newer one I have see them use a wide razor, I saw this very recently and i was amazed, or a propane torch to heat the glass on the other side of the glass from the sticker.
There are also a ton of these on ebay and other sites if you cant get it off. if it was a wet to stick a steamer will also probably work
My opinion only, for consideration: I consider genuine old stickers to be priceless history, re-productions to be decorations. If you can save an old sticker try to do so.
To remove an old sticker for reapplication, use a heat gun on the low setting and sloooowly heat the surface, maybe from the back side. Use your hand to judge temps, it should be uncomfortably hot but not burning. Pick a lower edge to just get a razor blade under and try to lift a little, pushing the edge of the sticker against the razor blade and lifting the blade, and feeling for if it's getting warm and soft enough, or maybe too much. Maybe you need some more heat, maybe less. You want the old adhesive to come up with the sticker, if it's not doing that put some more heat on it until it does. Adhesive "creeps", work with that (!) and not try to go too hard or too fast, don't bend the thing up more than 30* or so pulling on it and above all, do not stretch it! If it seems to be stretching act immediately and reduce heat or just don't pull so hard. Keep the heat on where the sticker is still stuck, letting the peeled-up part cool a little so it doesn't stretch. As it peels up more you can use your clean fingers to pull on a cooled area...not a hot one, or you'll stretch a bump into it. Patience, care, heat...if it's not working right keep adjusting technique until it is then keep with it, you don't want to let it cool then start again. It needs to be reapplied while still warm, have the new surface clean, warm and ready with a thin coat of fresh spray adhesive on that (not the sticker because to do that you will be causing it to cool), press it down and let it cool then and maybe shrink a little if it wants, then carefully wipe the excess adhesive off with a rag that has some urethane or enamel thinner soaked into it, you don't want it wicking under the sticker.
Practicing on an old license plate registration sticker first wouldn't be a bad idea (getting a single year sticker peeled up without breaking it or having pieces of another one stuck to it can be a challenge), and if the whole thing just won't work at-least have the original photographed in place first. Seems like a lot of trouble but hey, you're fooling around with an old car, not working on a production line.
P.S. the stickers on the windshield of the car above are a couple old Auto Club logos and a 1974 CA roadside inspection OK. Not all fifteen-year-old cars passed at the time. I value the stickers almost as much as that huge old windshield which I hope to never have to replace. Wife, more valuable.
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