Don't know about VW's but can tell you that the 68 Chevy pickup we sold a couple of years ago was worn so that one could start it with a screw driver rather than the key. I know someone else who said theirs was the same.

Randy

On 09/12/2010 3:30 PM, andrew strasfogel wrote:
Back in the 60s, there was supposedly one year during which the key to
a VW beetle opened ALL VW beetles from that model year.  I can't
rememeber whether they also worked in the ignition but why woudln't
they?

Again - urban myth or fact?

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Bob Rentfro<azbob...@gmail.com>  wrote:
Nope.....it happened to me. I have FB pictures of my car getting
fingerprinted. Stole everything out of the cabin and the trunk.

Bob R
On Dec 9, 2010 1:09 PM, "andrew strasfogel"<astrasfo...@gmail.com>  wrote:
Hmmm.... I wonder if this is an urban MYTH.

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM, glenn brown<g_010...@hotmail.com>  wrote:

Forwarded from a friend:

How to Lock Your Car and Why

I locked my car.  As I walked away I heard my car door unlock.  I went
back and locked my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to
walk away, I would hear it unlock again!!  Naturally alarmed, I looked
around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the
store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they
were somehow involved in this very weird situation.  I quickly chucked the
errand I was on, jumped in my car and sped away.  I went straight to the
police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a
new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars.  Two
weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening....
While traveling, my friend's son stopped at a roadside rest to use the
bathroom.  When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone
had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS
navigator, briefcase.....you name it.  He called the police and since there
were no signs of his car being broken into, the police told him he had been
a victim of the latest robbery tactic -- there is a device that robbers are
using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car
using your key-chain locking device..
They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim. They know you
are going inside of the store, restaurant, or bathroom and that they now
have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to manually
lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car -- that way if
there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it
will not be you.
When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send
the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key
chain, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be instantly
stolen.
This is very real.

Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass this note on.  Look
how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we
remembered to lock them -- and bingo, someone has our code...and whatever
was in our car.
G. M. Brown
Brevard, NC
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