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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Gary H</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> </div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11:13:30 AM CST, HealeyRick <healeyrik@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpbfe1dbd0yiv7454188914"><div><div dir="ltr">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</div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpbfe1dbd0yiv7454188914gmail_quote ydpbfe1dbd0yiv7454188914gmail_quote_container"><div id="ydpbfe1dbd0yiv7454188914yqt45622" class="ydpbfe1dbd0yiv7454188914yqt8138894533"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpbfe1dbd0yiv7454188914gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM Leonard Berkowitz <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:drberkowitz@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">drberkowitz@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpbfe1dbd0yiv7454188914gmail_quote">
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<div>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. </div>
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