Keep-a-Key: Remember them?!

[Rod/b]

The static strip thing got me thinking; who remembers Keep-a-Key? A little magnetic box with a bit of oily foam inside that you bunged a spare key in and stuck it inside a bumper or wheelarch.I wonder what insurance companies would make of them now?!

[Guest]

When I was changing the back plate on my Galant, I pulled the old plate off and something covered in black tape dropped to the floor - unravelled it and it was an original Mitsubishi key. Must have been there years.

[STUNO]

I remember these too

[trigger]

I remember them, about 10 years ago when I was still doing bodywork we had a 1988 Jaguar Sovereign V12 come in and I had to remove the front bumper to do some rust repairs on the front and still attached inside the bumper was a little box with a very rusty key inside.It was the first time I had heard of it and only time I've seen it.they couldn't have been a very safe method to keep a spare key.

[Station]

My dad has a few of these, but don't have the guts to stick it to the car.

[AXrescuer]

I remember them, about 10 years ago when I was still doing bodywork we had a 1988 Jaguar Sovereign V12 come in and I had to remove the front bumper to do some rust repairs on the front and still attached inside the bumper was a little box with a very rusty key inside.It was the first time I had heard of it and only time I've seen it.they couldn't have been a very safe method to keep a spare key.

Nobody had seen the one you found so it can't have been that unsafe!

[Father Ted]

Remember them? I still have one and use it.

[nigel bickle]

Me too -several.

[Tayne]

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[Mash]

I've got one, it was on my dad's Allegro!

[shite_meister]

 

I found a spare key behind the instrument cluster on an old car, quite where the logic was in putting it there is beyond me, "Oh I've lost me key, no worries I keep a spare behind the.....er.....bugger"

[Father Ted]

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