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Re: [Healeys] BJ8 Keys Order

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] BJ8 Keys Order
From: "Dan Stromquist" <dan@warner-associates.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:49:21 -0500
Dallas & Gary
I believe you both have the exact original keys. It appears the glove
box/trunk key is an oval key (some describe it as rectangular) and not the
round as my research led me to believe. Here is my revised conclusion for
1964-end BJ8s FS original keys:

Ignition/door key:  Hexagonal (some describe as square-ish roughly 7/8 X 3/4
inch) and gold in color.  One side has WILMOT BREEDEN and FS XXX and the
other side MADE IN ENGLAND and UNION.

Glove box/trunk key:  Oval (some describe as rectangular-ish roughly 1 X 1/2
inch) and gold in color.  One side has WILMOT BREEDEN and UNION and the
other side MADE IN ENGLAND and FS XXX.
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dallas Congleton [mailto:dcongleton@embarqmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:27 AM
To: Dan Stromquist; healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BJ8 Keys Order

Don, this is in the FWIW category, as my BJ8 is a late March 67 build, but I

do have the original keys.
The keys have the markings as yours as yours with a FS series hex key for 
the ignition/door ; but the glove box trunk/key is not round. It is also a 
FS series, but is shaped like a rectangle with rounded corners- dimensions 
1/2 x 1 inch.
Dallas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Stromquist" <dan@warner-associates.com>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:30 AM
Subject: [Healeys] BJ8 Keys Order


> After studying the archives (as Rich suggested) and reading Gary 
> Anderson's
> 17 Oct 2008 posting and looking at some website pictures of FS keys it is 
> my
> conclusion that a FS key from a phase 2 BJ8 was hexagonal (which is
> sometimes described as square-ish but does actually have 6 sides) and it
> fits ignition/doors.  On one side says WILMOT BREEDEN and has the FS XXX
> while the other side has MADE IN ENGLAND and UNION.  The glove box/trunk 
> key
> has the same markings but is round with a different FS XXX. So I sent an
> e-mail to the vendor with my prospective order and he expressed some 
> doubts
> on those shapes.   My particular car is a 1964 BJ8 with ignition/door key 
> FS
> 903 and glove box/trunk key FS 889.  Seems to be a lot of conflicting
> postings on the shape (and if an extra ignition key was screwed into the
> left VIN plate at the factory).  Does anyone have a for sure original set 
> of
> FS XXX keys that are hexagonal (square-ish) for the ignition/doors and 
> round
> for the glove box/trunk for a BJ8 around that date?
>
> Dan
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