Locked the keys in my vette in myrtle beach need advice
07-06-2007, 12:45 AM
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07-06-2007, 10:34 AM
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07-06-2007, 12:50 PM
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07-06-2007, 02:45 PM
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I locked my keys in my 70. Apparently you can't "slim jim" them since there's a plastic shield (?) that prevents the slim jim from working. I called a lock smith. He had a set of generic keys, none worked. He had to then make a key from scratch. Just amazing to watch.
I read an ariticle written by a very proficient Corvette car thief. (He was in federal prison when he wrote the article.) He carried a template that positioned around the door ourside surface. Then he used a ice pick to punch an exactly positioned hole in the door such that the ice pick ended up being positioned under a door unlock lever. He then rotated the ice pick to unlock the car. Wish I had saved the article. It was a masterpiece. His specialty, as I recall, was stealing cars to order. He had burglarly tools specific for each year of Corvette that he stole.
I read an ariticle written by a very proficient Corvette car thief. (He was in federal prison when he wrote the article.) He carried a template that positioned around the door ourside surface. Then he used a ice pick to punch an exactly positioned hole in the door such that the ice pick ended up being positioned under a door unlock lever. He then rotated the ice pick to unlock the car. Wish I had saved the article. It was a masterpiece. His specialty, as I recall, was stealing cars to order. He had burglarly tools specific for each year of Corvette that he stole.
07-06-2007, 03:17 PM
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I locked my keys in my 70. Apparently you can't "slim jim" them since there's a plastic shield (?) that prevents the slim jim from working. I called a lock smith. He had a set of generic keys, none worked. He had to then make a key from scratch. Just amazing to watch.
I read an ariticle written by a very proficient Corvette car thief. (He was in federal prison when he wrote the article.) He carried a template that positioned around the door ourside surface. Then he used a ice pick to punch an exactly positioned hole in the door such that the ice pick ended up being positioned under a door unlock lever. He then rotated the ice pick to unlock the car. Wish I had saved the article. It was a masterpiece. His specialty, as I recall, was stealing cars to order. He had burglarly tools specific for each year of Corvette that he stole.
I read an ariticle written by a very proficient Corvette car thief. (He was in federal prison when he wrote the article.) He carried a template that positioned around the door ourside surface. Then he used a ice pick to punch an exactly positioned hole in the door such that the ice pick ended up being positioned under a door unlock lever. He then rotated the ice pick to unlock the car. Wish I had saved the article. It was a masterpiece. His specialty, as I recall, was stealing cars to order. He had burglarly tools specific for each year of Corvette that he stole.
07-06-2007, 04:49 PM
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You guys are all thinking way too deep. If it is like my '78 and has the standard old GM flared lock *****, you should be able to form a coat hanger with a hook on the end and slide it in through the top or side of the window. Guide it until it wraps around the **** and pull the latch. You may have to reform the hanger to reach to the ****, but in the 70s one could get inot a car typically in under 5 minutes. Thus, they came up with theft proof ***** which took off the flare out on the end of the ****. A repo guy showed my how to foil those. If the **** was up top near the back as most were, you just took a sharp screwdriver through the back edge of the window and dig it into the **** and leverage the **** up. I have looked at my '78 and I know I could pop that puppy in no time.
07-06-2007, 05:22 PM
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Totaly -I make spares and hide them on each new car I buy.But if your at a show and one of your buddys locks his keys in the car its certainly nice to know a way to get in without doing body damage or paying a locksmith upwards of $150.
07-06-2007, 08:28 PM
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The earlier C3's didn't have those type of interior locks 
I was wondering what the tool was in the video....
Will the Corvette dipstick work (Drivers side shorty) without mangling it so you cant get it back in the tube?
Thanks Roger
Forget that question, I cant open my hood easily without releasing it from the inside
I guess I would just break the windshield to get the passenger out
Will the Corvette dipstick work (Drivers side shorty) without mangling it so you cant get it back in the tube?
Thanks Roger
Forget that question, I cant open my hood easily without releasing it from the inside
I guess I would just break the windshield to get the passenger out
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07-07-2007, 12:11 AM
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The earlier C3's didn't have those type of interior locks
I was wondering what the tool was in the video....
Will the Corvette dipstick work (Drivers side shorty) without mangling it so you cant get it back in the tube?
Thanks Roger
Forget that question, I cant open my hood easily without releasing it from the inside
I guess I would just break the windshield to get the passenger out
I was wondering what the tool was in the video....
Will the Corvette dipstick work (Drivers side shorty) without mangling it so you cant get it back in the tube?
Thanks Roger
Forget that question, I cant open my hood easily without releasing it from the inside
I guess I would just break the windshield to get the passenger out
07-07-2007, 12:30 AM
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I locked my keys in my 70. Apparently you can't "slim jim" them since there's a plastic shield (?) that prevents the slim jim from working. I called a lock smith. He had a set of generic keys, none worked. He had to then make a key from scratch. Just amazing to watch.
I read an ariticle written by a very proficient Corvette car thief. (He was in federal prison when he wrote the article.) He carried a template that positioned around the door ourside surface. Then he used a ice pick to punch an exactly positioned hole in the door such that the ice pick ended up being positioned under a door unlock lever. He then rotated the ice pick to unlock the car. Wish I had saved the article. It was a masterpiece. His specialty, as I recall, was stealing cars to order. He had burglarly tools specific for each year of Corvette that he stole.
I read an ariticle written by a very proficient Corvette car thief. (He was in federal prison when he wrote the article.) He carried a template that positioned around the door ourside surface. Then he used a ice pick to punch an exactly positioned hole in the door such that the ice pick ended up being positioned under a door unlock lever. He then rotated the ice pick to unlock the car. Wish I had saved the article. It was a masterpiece. His specialty, as I recall, was stealing cars to order. He had burglarly tools specific for each year of Corvette that he stole.
07-07-2007, 12:36 AM
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You guys are all thinking way too deep. If it is like my '78 and has the standard old GM flared lock *****, you should be able to form a coat hanger with a hook on the end and slide it in through the top or side of the window. Guide it until it wraps around the **** and pull the latch. You may have to reform the hanger to reach to the ****, but in the 70s one could get inot a car typically in under 5 minutes. Thus, they came up with theft proof ***** which took off the flare out on the end of the ****. A repo guy showed my how to foil those. If the **** was up top near the back as most were, you just took a sharp screwdriver through the back edge of the window and dig it into the **** and leverage the **** up. I have looked at my '78 and I know I could pop that puppy in no time.
Add a heavy duty rubber band to that coat hanger. Tie a knot in it. Loop one end of the rubber band over the lock stem (either style, straight or flared). Rotate the hanger so that the rubber band winds up around the stem. Wind it up good and tight. Pull.
Enjoy your ride!
