Success!! Well, more or less. Did lose a little paint.
Yesterday I bought two things. Tarminator Bug and Tar remover. And from something I saw on youtube, some mechanics hand cleaner, typically known as GoJo hand cleaner, the one I bought was made by Permatex. It has pumice in it which provided a little mild abrasive.
So I started with the bug and tar, let it sit on it for about a minute, then rubbed, and right away it was cutting through the stuff. I noticed quite a bit of yellow showing up on the rag so I only went so far with that, then turned to the hand cleaner which did a great job of taking it to the end. It too though did take up some paint. You can't see it in the photo, but there are a couple spots where the paint got a bit thin. This globe is NOS, I still have the box it came in, so this paint is who knows how old. And it's not perfect. They weren't painting these back then to look like show cars. So the paint isn't perfect anyway, so the little bit of damage that I ended up with just blends right in.
I installed the lenses as you can see and everything looks good!! Have a project I'm about to start with this special globe frame with the hole. Will post pics in a new post when finished.
So next time, I suggest going straight to the bug and tar, and maybe also or instead, just the hand cleaner.
