[Healeys] Lockable door on BJ7

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 My father purchased a used '62 Corvette in the late 60's. He worked in the insurance industry & he heard that 90% of all Corvettes were stollen sometime in their lives, in Chicago, where we lived. His solution was to install a manual shut off valve in the fuel line. The valve was hidden behind the drivers seat & operated by a "T" shaped handle which was removable. His theory was that if someone broke in thru the canvas top & hot wired the ignition, they would only get a block or 2 before the engine would die. The crook would panic & run away.Gary H 
    On Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11:13:30 AM CST, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com> wrote:   

 Lockable doors don't seem to be much of a theft deterrent. Having lived in Boston for many years in the age of British sports cars, I saw plenty with broken vent windows or slashed convertible tops that defeated locked doors. Maybe putting a tracker in the car and an ignition cutoff might be more effective
On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM Leonard Berkowitz <drberkowitz at hotmail.com> wrote:

My BJ7, which I have owned since 1984,  had lockable door handles with push buttons. When I restored the car in the early 1990’s I had the original door handles reinstalled. I was told that the push buttons were wrong and I wanted my car to be more original. If I remember correctly the conversion was not a major big deal. 
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