Old car security..

[mini man]

This reminds me of a time when my dad,uncle,uncles stepdad and cousin all had mk3 Cortina's.It was a standing joke at family meetups if anyone needed something from another car they just used their own car key...

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[LaurieS]

Some years ago I stayed in a hotel close to Gatwick airport.

 

Settled in the room and then went out.

 

Came back strolled along the corridor and stopped at no33. Key in opened the door

and there were cases. Mmmm. I thought they are not mine. Hastily beat a retreat.

 

My room was 34.

 

Laurie

[JeroenS]

My parents owned a couple of Simca 1100's in the '70s, this story is about the one in yellow. My sister and I were small kids back then, went on a visit with my mother. Got into the car for the drive home after unlocking it, but the car wouldn't start. Only when my sister and I mentioned that the plaid on the back seats was missing did my mother notice that our own car was parked next to the one we were in 😎

[Black Knight]

Early 1970s my mother drove our bronze coloured HC series Viva home. Told me to get groceries out of boot. No groceries. Mother had driven wrong car home. Father took it back to supermarket car park. Parked where he could and got our car. He walked past a couple standing with two RUC officers. They were telling said officers where they had parked their Viva and it had been stolen.

Twenty years ago I bought a 1930 Austin 7 two-seat tourer [aka an Ulster]. As a road going racing car it had no ignition key system. I used to park it in towns and villages during breaks in rallies. If people only knew they could have just got into the car and pressed the starter button and driven away in it, and to help them the starter button had 'Start' printed on it. I added in both a battery cut off switch and a hidden key ignition switch - a two key system.

[PatW]

We built a number of kit cars in the 80's using Ford Escort MK1 & 2 as base vehicles. They all opened up with my Yale front door key!

OH and a funny story from a lady at work who although needing glasses wouldn't wear them outside. Her husband wasn't a man to go food shopping on a Saturday and she hadn't passed her test after about 5 go's. He took her to Tesco's and sat in the car while she went off with her trolley to do the weekly shop.

Coming back out she went along (she thought) the same row got to a similar car of a similar colour with  a man sat inside, opened the driver's door and asked him to help pack the shopping in the boot but the man wasn't her husband! 

Her husband was about five cars down in the next row, but wouldn't get out of the car  to help her (pretty useless) and just sat there laughing!

She wore her specs the next week and has done ever since. 

Edited December 24, 2018 by PatW

[richellis]

I had a mk3 escort. When I lost the key I went to the scrap yard and got a handful of ford keys. Most of them worked.

[malpaso]

We had a house with a green in front where people would picnic.  On numerous occasions they would knock on the door and ask if they could ring a relative to bring the spare key as it had been locked in the boot.  We just used to say no bother and wander out with the collection of our car keys (by then both me and my sister had cars as well as the parents) and not once could we not find a key that worked.  All our keys were BL but the visitors had Ford's, Vauxhalls and all sorts, but never a problem!

Mind you one of my Triumph Spitfires only needed a flat head screw driver to work the locks.  That was still more secure than a midget where the catch was right by the gap in the roof!