Help on removing exterior trim

[Buckaroo]

My car is being repaired from a deer accident.  When the car was restored it was not done as it would have been done at the factory.  I have been looking through catalogs and cannot seem to find a complete kit for attaching the side trim on a 57 Fairlane 500 2 door.  Has anyone found a complete kit instead of buying all the individual pieces?

[59meteor]

Not sure about 57s, but for my 59, I was able to buy some NOS Ford body clips from "Back Counter", some reproduction clips from Dennis Carpenter, reuse a few of the originals, and for the rest, which I was unable to find replacements for, modify some aftermarket "universal" type clips to make them work. One thing that helped, was I have an original 59 Ford/Meteor body parts catalog, and a Collision manual, which provided at the part numbers for each clip used on each section of trim, the quantity of each, as well as illustrations of each clip for comparison. Carpenter, and I imagine, most od the other vendors, often use the old part numbers, so by Googling each number, you may find some for sale on the internet, or who (if anybody) offers reproductions of specific clips. With the clips I bought from Carpenter, some worked perfect, some worked with minor tweaks, and some were basically useless.