[Mgs] Mgs Digest, Vol 72, Issue 16

[Max Heim]

I think my ignition lock must be pretty worn, because not only do all the
keys fit it, I can take them out while the engine is running. Occasionally
they fall out while driving, then I have to search the floor to switch off.


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


on 5/16/13 9:49 PM, Glenn Schnittke at g.schnittke at comcast.net wrote:

> That's funny. In the mid-late 90's I had a 69 primrose B. I was working
> at a theater downtown Nashville and discovered that the orchestra pit
> motor control key fit the ignition. Then some years later, I was working
> in a new theater at Vanderbilt University and discovered that all the
> keys for the keyboard locks on the Steinways fit my ignition. Neither
> the glove box or fuel keys would work in the ignition. And of course my
> ignition key wouldn't unlock the pianos. I've never bothered locking the
> doors, so I wouldn't know about that.
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 
> On 5/15/2013 12:00 PM, mgs-request at autox.team.net wrote:
>> From: Max Heim<mvheim at sonic.net>
>> To: MG List<mgs at autox.team.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Mgs] Replacement Keys
>> Message-ID:<CDB7E640.4616A%mvheim at sonic.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
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>> 
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Menlo Park, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires