[DeTomaso] Re-key door and/or rear deck locks?? Two different key profiles?

[Ken Green]

Jack,
 
    I'll look at them again, but the locks and keys all look new.  My guess was there there are two distinctly different keys?
 
    This leads me to ask if anyone has collected Pantera keys?  I have a couple trunk locks and ignition switches I picked up without keys, and I was wondering how many different patterns there are?  I've heard in the past that some cars didn't have a lot of different patterns.  
 
Ken

--- On Tue, 9/15/09, JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com> wrote:


From: JDeRyke at aol.com <JDeRyke at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Re-key door and/or rear deck locks??      Two different key profiles?
To: kenn_green at yahoo.com, detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 11:52 AM


In a message dated 9/15/09 10:47:08 AM, kenn_green at yahoo.com writes:

> It appears there are two key profiles for the door lock keys?  The two 
> different keys I have will not insert into the other locks. 
> 
Anyone contacted Wilkinson about this being legitimate or simply a case of 
worn locks and keys?
When we got our Pantera in 1980, it had two sets of three different keys, 
all made by Taylor Locks: the ignition which is double-sided and markex 
'X-20',   a left door and a right door key (all so badly worn the id mark is 
illegible) that also opened the trunk lock. I note that all the door keys are 
identical  except for the groove on one side of the 'right' door keys being 
slightly wider than that of the left door. My son (NOT a locksmith and then in 
his teens) was able to re-do the tumblers in the locks such that we now 
have two sets of one ignition and one 'other' key. It's possible our 
37-year-old machine's locks are worn enough that the keys now fit where they wouldn't 
when the car was new. FWIW- J Deryke
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