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All Vintage Speedster owners---for your files.  I recently had a couple of extra ignition keys made for my VS and places like Lowes, and sears had no clue about how to help me so I went to a locksmith who identified the blank as a very common "Y-11" from which he made me copies of my key.  

I hope this will help someone someday who is trying to get a spare key made for a VS. 

2007 Vintage Speedster/ Jake Raby TYPE IV engine

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Robert M posted:

I have done business with the same locksmith for years and I emailed him a photo of a 356 key blank and the Y-11 blank used in our replicas and he positively confirmed you can not make a replica key from the 356 blank. So unless us replica owners pony up for a vintage ignition it's a mailbox key for us.

Thanks for the extra research, Robert!  The key is more of an annoyance than a priority.  I think I'll stick with the mailbox key, and now have some good new info if I ever need to replace the ignition...

~Justin

JMasonry posted:
Robert M posted:

I have done business with the same locksmith for years and I emailed him a photo of a 356 key blank and the Y-11 blank used in our replicas and he positively confirmed you can not make a replica key from the 356 blank. So unless us replica owners pony up for a vintage ignition it's a mailbox key for us.

Thanks for the extra research, Robert!  The key is more of an annoyance than a priority.  I think I'll stick with the mailbox key, and now have some good new info if I ever need to replace the ignition...

~Justin

I agree it's not the coolest looking key, the fanciest looking key, or the sexiest looking key but it starts my car. The first thing I thought of when I saw this key was, "Where's the lock-box this goes to?"

Hang it on a key ring with a nice looking key fob to draw everyone's attention away from it.

SF-Speedster posted:

If one purchases the OEM BOSCH ignition from this link:

http://m.ebay.com/itm/350910369391?_mwBanner=1

Would the Porsche ignition key (from Sierra Madre) work?

http://www.sierramadrecollecti...56B-K100-p18673.html

You're willing to pay $26.75 (oh, and let's not forget to add $54.50 for the ignition switch) so you can say it has a real Porsche key? Am I alone in the wilderness thinking that's kind of the wrong side of insane? Take the key you have, drill a bunch of holes in it (so it looks like Anand's above) and that'll be cooler than anything with the P word on it.

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