Well look what I found. 

"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove) 03/06/2019 at 22:12 • Filed to: Past loves

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My girls were going through the office closet and found these.

The keys to my first car, a 1988 Cutlass Supreme Indy pace car replica. I miss it.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Chariotoflove 03/06/2019 at 22:16

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Having autocrossed W-bodies, I can attest that they were shit-tier cars to drive fast, but man did they enjoy two things. 1) Cruising the highway. 2) Being driven HARD. W-bodies creak and groan, but they take thrashings that cause BMWs to puke oil and snap bearings and shafts. I miss my old monte carlo sometimes.

Chariotoflove > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 03/06/2019 at 22:22

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That’s fair. And I never autocrossed it. But I did drive it all over the Midwest and northeast. It served me well. 

C62030 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 03/06/2019 at 22:29

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I’ve never autocrossed mine, but it is a stellar cruiser.

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 03/06/2019 at 22:38

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Those keys were so distinctive, I knew exactly what they were for :)

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 03/06/2019 at 22:50

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What’s a “key?”

I kid, but I remember well those days of one key for the doors and trunk and another for the ignition. Our 82 Rabbit was the first car I ever saw with a single key.

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 03/06/2019 at 22:53

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That alone makes you part of a select club anymore. 

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > C62030 03/06/2019 at 22:54

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I did autocross mine. Often. It was dogshit. My rear brakes caught fire. My front brakes faded. Some of the subframe bolts exploded. I ruined a transmission mount. I blew the head gasket. And I loved it more than it had any right to be loved.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 03/06/2019 at 22:54

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We still have emergency keys hidden in our fobs. But we can no longer get spares made at the hardware store.

Progress. 

lone_liberal > ttyymmnn 03/06/2019 at 22:57

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For my Chevy  it’s ignition and doors on one key and the trunk on a second. Well it will be once I replace the ignition lock cylinder. Right now it has three keys.

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 03/06/2019 at 22:58

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My ‘89 Oldsmobile Trofeo  just had the standard GM square ignition and round door keys. But I recognized the keys, because I was mildly obsessed with keys as a kid.

ttyymmnn > lone_liberal 03/06/2019 at 23:08

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My recollection (from the mid-80s Caprice ) was round for doors and trunk, square for ignition.

JeepJeremy > Chariotoflove 03/06/2019 at 23:18

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I can’t remember how we got on the subject here at work the other night but: I mentioned something about remembering when cars had 2 keys....the younger people in the office thought I was flat out telling a lie to them!

And I was like “yeah: one for the doors and another key for the ignition”. They couldn’t believe it.  They couldn’t wrap their heads around why that was necessary.  

I just laughed

Chariotoflove > JeepJeremy 03/06/2019 at 23:34

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That’s hilarious. 

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 03/06/2019 at 23:35

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We all have our little fetishes. :p

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 03/06/2019 at 23:38

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Yes, we certainly do :)

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Chariotoflove 03/07/2019 at 00:28

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A few years ago I had a spare key made for my Mk5 Golf. I only wanted it so I could lock the expensive e-key in the car while I went surfing, and take the waterproof dumb key with me.

Jeez, the performance I had to go through to get the locksmith to accept that yes, I knew it wouldn’t start the car, and no, I didn’t care!

Bit of a change from the good old days when any Mini key would start any other Mini if you knew how to jiggle it right. 

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Chariotoflove 03/07/2019 at 02:55

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Three keys? In 1988? In America? Wow.

I don't remember any of our cars going back to the mid 70s ever having more than 1 key.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Chariotoflove 03/07/2019 at 03:58

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here is my “key” to my second car, 1985 VK Holden C ommodore

all you needed in the end was a 5c coin, like most Commodores of that vintage

Chariotoflove > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 03/07/2019 at 10:45

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I don’t think I can even lock mine inside the car. I don’t think it  let me when it senses one inside without a person. Now I want to go check that. 

Chariotoflove > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 03/07/2019 at 10:46

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One for ignition, one that unlocks  but not for the ignition, and an old house key.

Chariotoflove > pip bip - choose Corrour 03/07/2019 at 10:48

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Ha!  I love that. 

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Chariotoflove 03/07/2019 at 13:12

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The Golf wouldn’t let me if it saw the key was there, but I  could fool it  by putting the key in the rear footwell. That was out of range of the sensor.

Chariotoflove > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 03/07/2019 at 13:13

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Huh. Well that works.