Need a Spare key for my VS

I don't know what it costs these days but you can ask your locksmith.  I bought a car with a locked glove-box years ago.  With a blank key a locksmith was able to make a key that fit before opening the lock - sure would beat having to replace you whole ignition switch.  Good luck

Try PEP BOYS.....   They seem to have the key blanks for just about anything.....   Pricy though......   $3.00 / $4.00

I have a VS with a VW ignition switch and I got one at ACE.

All I need is a piece of wire and you look the other way :~)

Ed, Al & Leon---good advice from you all and thanks.

I did go to a locksmith just now and got two spare keys---only $2 apiece.

The key blank, I learned, is the most popular blank made and the number for it is  y11. I called Cathy at Vintage and passed this info on to her because she had told me that the only solution to getting a spare key was to replace the ignition switch for $50 and they come with two keys.

My car is a 9 year old vs and I don't know if the key blank for it is still used by Vintage---or other makes.   Interesting thing, when I had my Cessna 172 I learned that there were only 4 keys used for all 172's made in the last 30 years--how strange---right?

For some reason I was thinking that I had checked into getting a spare months ago and the blank could not be found.  Getting prepared for Carlisle made me try again and I lucked out.  Now I have a spare key to go with my car's spare tire!

I hope this info will help other SOCers in the future!

Jack wrote:  "Interesting thing, when I had my Cessna 172 I learned that there were only 4 keys used for all 172's made in the last 30 years--how strange---right?"

Well, there is that thing about actually being able to FLY before you hot-wire a 172 and make off with it, right?  And they're sitting inside the fence of an airport.....That's another thing.

I could probably get one up in the air OK.  

Getting down?  That's another matter....

Flying is easy, Gordon.....I can damn near do it in my sleep. Check the eyes on this one...

Gordon Nichols posted:

Jack wrote:  "Interesting thing, when I had my Cessna 172 I learned that there were only 4 keys used for all 172's made in the last 30 years--how strange---right?"

Well, there is that thing about actually being able to FLY before you hot-wire a 172 and make off with it, right?  And they're sitting inside the fence of an airport.....That's another thing.

I could probably get one up in the air OK.  

Getting down?  That's another matter....

Getting down is easier then you might think...

I have the same issue and showed it to one locksmith and he said what the hell is that from??? I've never seen a key like that before.

Same here a couple of years ago.  I guess there are dumb locksmiths and smart ones.

A-Z Locks seem to have an extensive inventory of keys.  I had keys make there for an travel trailer after trying LOWES, HD and ACE.  A $12.5 key grew to over $6 but better than having to drill out lock if I lost the single one.  FYI ACE seems to have larger selection than others.

When I was in college around 1970, I had a co-op job at Atkins and Merrill, a company that made cockpit procedures trainers for the commercial aircraft industry.  They were the same inside as a real airplane cockpit but were stationary, as opposed to a full simulator that moves at the pilot's command.  The FAA out of Nashua, NH, would visit to certify each one produced and needed someone to "fly it around" while they did their certification things.  That fell to the bottom of the totem pole namely, me...  A college intern.   So I have about 20 hours, each, in a DC-10 and L-1011 as pilot and witnessed by FAA officials.  

I have successfully landed both at Logan (BOS) and Bradley Field ( BDL ) in Connecticut using both ILS and seat-of-the-pants (no easy thing at Bradley because you have to crab it in when the wind is just so - learned that from the FAA guy).  

I have also buried both of those big aircraft into the runway at Peese AFB (now PSM International) in NH, just to see what would happen when you come in really hot, below the ILS path and way over approach-angle.  You can do that stuff in a trainer....   

I have, however, never actually piloted a real, working aircraft.  If I do, I want it to be a Cessna Skymaster.  They are just wicked cool.

Gordon, you're right about the plane that's nicknamed the "Mixmaster"  It's gotta be a very safe twin with both props pulling it straight ahead unlike the common twins like Barons and such. I miss flying a lot. We flew all over the country and coast to coast a few times.  That was in a Cessna Cutlass.  I sold it to the head of the engine department at Ford  and I believe it sold for the highest price ever for a Cutlass, $119,000.  It was loaded and pristine.  I have seen over 200 knots with just a 180 hp engine flying out of El Paso going Northwest towards Hot Springs.  Hell of a tail wind---glad I wasn't heading towards El Paso!  It was a thrill to shoot an ILS approach into Van Nuys where I started flying lessons in 1977.  Loved those days.

I have 1,150 takeoffs and 1,149 what you'd call "landings".  The saying is that a good landing is one where you can still use the plane.  One flight in a 172 into Concord, NC a few years ago was not a "good" landing.  

I loved flying but now I  don't hardly even look up if I hear a plane overhead.  Today it's all business Brokerage, Speedsters and Banjos!  And grand kids.

I think there was an ad on the samba selling blank VW keys.