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Re: [Mgs] Replacement Keys

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Replacement Keys
From: Max Heim <mvheim@sonic.net>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 13:01:52 -0700
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Seems plausible -- that profile matches my set. But it's not like you have
to be too accurate. My 66 MGB came with three keys -- glovebox, gas cap,
trunk -- all three of which work in the ignition. None of these unlock the
doors, however.

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 5/14/13 12:51 PM, Andrew Lundgren at lundgren@byu.net wrote:

> The '78 B I just bought came with one set of keys and a story.
> 
> The guy who was keeping the car for the guy I bought the car from lost
> the keys.
> 
> They called in a lock smith some time ago to make a replacement set.  He
> didn't have the correct blanks.  Rather than order them, he made some
> out of what he had lying about that could be wiggled about into the locks.
> 
> I want to get the correct keys now, but am not sure where the lock
> series numbers are located.
> 
> Do I pull the cowl off to get to the number off the lock, or is it
> someplace else?
> 
> I can see the pattern well enough by looking at the key I have, but as
> it is a jimmied (my apologies to any Jim's out there) key, I am not
> really positive the key will be any better than the one I have.
> 
>  From Mosses page here:
> 
> http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=30369&SortOrder=
> 50
> 
> It looks like an FS to me...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Andrew
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