On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Joseph Sholtes wrote:
> TR 4 Owners,
>
> While taking apart a TR 4 tailight, I came across a pair of
> keys. They were located in the turn signal area, along side the
> bulb, held there by the rear lamp lens. I guess they were some
> sort of emergency back-up incase of getting locked out. That
> was a cool idea- as long as you had a phillips (uh excuse me,
> "posi-drive") screwdriver handy!
Actually, that was pretty much the "standard" location for the spare set
of keys, whilst the cars were being shipped from the factory to far-flung
places such as the USofA. At various times, spare keys were also taped to
the bottom of the windshield washer bottle on some models. (That's were
dad and I found the spare set of keys for his Herald, about four years
after he first bought it new.)
ISTR seeing new Austin Americas on the dealer's lot with a spare key held
down by a sheet metal screw on some panel just under the hood. If a smart
would-be thief had just known where to look for the spare keys, some
dealers easily could have been short quite a few new cars back then!
--Andy
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