hey, my dad just bought a 65 wildcat 4door sedan with no keys how hard is it to open the decklid without a key or destroying something? thanks in advanace fiddy
Look in the glove compartment for a ****on. Lots of Buicks had a vacuum trunk release with the ****on in the glove box. If you find a ****on run the car to make vacuum and try it.
Or pull out the back seat and crawl into the trunk. There should be a slot in the latch to insert a screwdriver.
I have always done the back seat removal, I've got very long 3/8" extentions so I can unbolt the latch...
'65 Buick should still be a 1 key car. Take the jockey box lock to your locksmith & make a key ... Buick guys, correct me if I'm wrong ...
I forget how it happened (I was a little kid at the time), but the keys to my Dad's' 67 Pontiac Catalina ended up in the trunk. I remember being small enough to crawl in there after he pulled the back seat out so I could retrieve them.
awesome info! did not find a ****on or pull lever in the glove box, but having keys back engineered from
My 65 Olds has 2 keys, one for sign and one for trunk and doors and I'm told the glove compartment. Take the glove box lock out it has a code on it and have a key made then try it in the trunk. Pat
2 key car. GM used two keys up into the 90's My 97 Monte Carlo has an ignition key and a door/trunk key and now one door key and a separate trunk key as I had to switch out the trunk lock. Ignition and then door, and trunk key. I'm thinking that the jockey box key is the same as the door and trunk. I'm with those who would pop out the back seat and see if I could figure it out. I've got and extra long speed handle and a long extension that Has opened more than one trunk with the right tool on the end of the extension. If there is no trunk key taking out the glove box lock or one of the door locks to use to get the code off the lock cylinder or for a locksmith to code a key off will no doubt have to be done before all is said and done anyhow.
Somewhere around here there is a crank rod from a Chevy truck bottle jack with a 3/8" extension driven onto the end of it. It is about 6 feet long, so you don't have to crawl into the trunk. Just unbolt the 3 bolts that hold the latch on & you are done. God Bless Bill https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ar-transport-hauling-open-or-enclosed.614419/
It's really cool when you take the lock cylinders to the locksmith to get keyed - and he makes a set of keys from original key blanks from the 30's! Didn't know NOS stuff like that was still around.
Door, trunk and ignition keys of this vintage worked with 6 tumbler lock cylinders. Door lock cylinders may have had the code stamped on them. Don't recall ever seeing code stamped on glove box cylinder, but worth a look. If you take the glove box cylinder itself to a locksmith it may only get you 2/3 of the way to making a working key for the trunk. A lot of the glove box locks only used 4 tumblers in the cylinder.
I'm a retired locksmith and have made keys for this type of car. Call and ask, not all smith's do automotive.
Funny, as a teen, I took a 60's car door lock cylinder to Ace Hardware, they couldn't do anything with it. Screwed around quite a while. Police Officer was waiting in the parking lot when I walked out. He had a call - kid in red shirt was trying to steal cars at Ace Hardware. I have the lock cylinder out of the car door, in my hand. How could I be stealing the car that I took apart to get the lock cylinder out it? Cop just laughed, and drove off.
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