Cleaning vintage decals

[oneheadlite]

Hey gang, here’s an interesting one.

My shop owner and his brother have been racing since they were kids. His brother just bought an old vintage fridge from a race shop from back in the day. It’s currently disassembled, but it’s an old school GE fridge that they added a rear wing off an old 70’s Lola Can-Am car (you can just see it on the floor in the background).

They’d like to rewind the clock a bit and get it cleaned up, but obviously don’t want to risk damaging any of the stickers on it. (You can see someone got too aggressive on the bird in a cage sticker - from a shop that ran Birdcage Maseratis back in the day)

Wondering if folks have any suggestions for cleaning this thing up a bit. Obviously it’s gonna have patina, but a little less dust and grime would be great.

I’ve got thoughts, but thought I’d throw it out to the group to see if anyone has worked with anything like this before.

[Bosko]

Cool fridge!

I would try a small area with a ph netural soap and a detail brush, spending most of the time going around the outside edge of the stickers.

Time consuming for sure, but it would be the less evasive route....