Projects Need help opening my 62 Comet trunk without keys...

I need some help. I cant find the trunk key for a 62 Comet I bought. Apparently it's keyed differently than the doors and ignition.

I don't have a problem drilling the lock out, as long as it gets me in.

Also, where would I find a replacement lock?

Thanks,
Eric

 

Can you go thru behind the back seat?

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

To clarify, remove the rear seat and crawl into the trunk and manually throw the latch. Then with trunk lid in open position remove the key lock (not necessary to remove actual latch) and take it to a lock smith and have a key made. Now, if your car hasn't had the locks messed with the Glove Box would share the same key. You can remove the lock from the glove box much easier and have a key cut for it.
The Wizzard

 

Very easy to pick those old locks from the outside, I can do it in less than 5 minutes a good lock smith will do it in less time. Picked the one in my avatar found beauty rings tool box and a very rat infested Northwestern letter jacket.

 

Also make sure you don't have part of a broken key in it.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm not in a huge hurry, so i'll pull the glovebox lock, and have a key made.

 

If need be I have the code book for your car where a key can be cut without a lock.

I bought a Fairlane with no trunk key and used the code on glovebox lock, looked up in the code book the cut sequence and the newly punched key worked in trunk lock perfectly.

If I had the digit code off the lock I could give you the cut sequence. Any locksmith should be able to do the same if they have proper decode book.

As others have said access thru trunk and pull the clip off lock. Remove lock & bring to locksmith . . Then in mean time you can just use a screw driver to trip latch until the key is made

 

An old timer taught me to "keep every key you find". You will find that most Ford trunk keys from that era have the same grooves and will go into the lock. Most locks by now are a little (or completely) worn. If you can get a few keys, insert one into the hole, and keep turning the key as if you would be unlocking it, while also "jiggling" the key up and down.
I have used this method many times with old auto locks with success. ( I have a collection of about 300 auto keys)

 

In the early 60s there weren't that many different keys. I remember picking up a customers 1963 Chevy from his work parking lot using the spare keys he left. We serviced it and returned it. The customer stopped after work to ask why we hadn't picked up his car. It turned out that we had picked up another red 63 station wagon and the keys fit.

 

If you have or can borrow a skinny 10-12 year old kid, take out the back seat and have the aforementioned kid climb in and pop the latch. No way could I squeeze my large, tall, fat carcass through there. As for the key blanks on Fords '49-'64, the blank for the ignition and door locks has a square head, while the one for the trunk and glove box has a round head. Even after the went to the double-sided keys in '65, there were not that many different key patterns. We used to have a '78 Granada, and my parents had an '81 LTD at the time. Same trunk/glove box key fit both cars. The ignition key for my '55 Ford also fit the '55 Ford that my cousin had.

 

I had a 65 t bird. Same deal. Pulled the back seat and with every extension I had was able to reach the bolts on the latch and take it loose. Not sure how your latch is bolted on but that worked for me. Like working the skill crane trying to get on the head of the bolt. There's a hell of a lot of flex in 15-16 extensions! RS59