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07-09-2015, 07:46 PM | #1 |
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Historical Question: How Did Thieves Steal Model "A"s?
-yeah I know, find one that had the keys in it. but we see references to stolen cars and how did thieves bypass the Electrolock, or it is foolproof, or did it primarily keep semi-honest people honest? Could one cut the armored cable and the wire therein, and put a jumper from the exposed wire to the coil?
I'm not looking for an illicit career late in life, just curious as to the efficacy of the Electrolock. |
07-09-2015, 08:41 PM | #2 |
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Re: Historical Question: How Did Thieves Steal Model "A"s?
Just leave it. The eloctrolock seems to have worked better than some modern systems, and they didn't kill you when not working.
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Re: Historical Question: How Did Thieves Steal Model "A"s?
You can bypass the ignition switch with a Model 'T' coil box - but I am not going to tell you how. Bill
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Re: Historical Question: How Did Thieves Steal Model "A"s?
It's not very hard to pick, not a lot of different keys --a good light looking in the keyhole along with experience can get real close to narrow it down to about 10 key combinations--look under the floormat, spare key up the dash rail, or in the doorpocket
the popout is intended to ground the wire when locked so jumper wires to the points won't work |
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Re: Historical Question: How Did Thieves Steal Model "A"s?
NOT a good subject to discuss, you wanna' tell the thieves "HOW TO"????
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Re: Historical Question: How Did Thieves Steal Model "A"s?
Just buy a tow rig, or steal one. That's how they thwart the system an the harley's. Drive down the street, hook it and gone. Less than 30 seconds if you're good and everything looks legit.
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Re: Historical Question: How Did Thieves Steal Model "A"s?
I wonder how many people removed the car's key? Probably as many as locked their front house door.
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Hi ericr,
When I went to high school in our rural area, I drove my Model A, parked, and walked to a ferry; and then, returned by ferry, got in my unlocked Model A and drove home. I had no ignition key, no electro-lock, no door key .....only a push-pull toggle switch for the ignition switch. Expensive farm tractors and implements were parked out of doors, and had no keyed ignition switches either ..... never even heard of a stolen vehicle back then. FWIW: This "was" the real "America the Beautiful", that we present day rural old folks will never live long enough to see again. |
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My first Model A Had only an off/on toggle switch and it got stolen, but the robber was ignorant of Model A workings.
I found it about half a mile down the road with a flat battery. It was my habit to turn off the petrol and he had got as far as a carburetor bowl full would allow and then flattened the battery trying to restart it |
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I once restored a Cabriolet that came back from Europe and it had an old knife switch bolted to the inside firewall.
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Yes and remember the Roadster and open cab pickup is pretty easy to get into. Wayne
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