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    • Home
    • A Life's Collection
      • Skeleton Keys
      • Automobile Keys
      • Aftermarket & Look-Alikes
      • Padlocks & Latches
      • Cylinders & Cores
      • Banking, Vault & Combo
    • Prized Finds
      • Ornate Originals
      • Commercial Keys
      • Unusual Applications
      • Equipment & Supplies
    • They Speak to Me
      • Sales Pieces
      • Tags & Fobs
      • Original Packaging
    • XO
      • Great Memories
      • In a Family Way
      • For Trade
    • Book a Talk
  • Home
  • A Life's Collection
    • Skeleton Keys
    • Automobile Keys
    • Aftermarket & Look-Alikes
    • Padlocks & Latches
    • Cylinders & Cores
    • Banking, Vault & Combo
  • Prized Finds
    • Ornate Originals
    • Commercial Keys
    • Unusual Applications
    • Equipment & Supplies
  • They Speak to Me
    • Sales Pieces
    • Tags & Fobs
    • Original Packaging
  • XO
    • Great Memories
    • In a Family Way
    • For Trade
  • Book a Talk
KeyOfTheDay

K E Y O F T H E D A Y

K E Y O F T H E D A Y K E Y O F T H E D A Y

Automobile Keys

Since the advent of the Model T, car keys have been synonymous with freedom.  After WWII, automakers and aftermarket producers made beautiful locks, keys and fobs to celebrate the open road

[195x-1968] There's nothing better than a good story.  Paper tags from dealers, garages and consumers shed light on the age and use of these keys

[195x-1980] Several brands disappeared from the US market, including American Motors, Packard, Nash, Rambler and Studebaker. Note early IH and Jeep 

[195x-present] In this writer's opinion, Ford Motor Company had the most interesting American car keys in the 1950s and 60s

[1933-Present] Some Chrysler products, to be fair, have offered handsome keys.  Note that PDCD includes DeSoto and Omega was used in the 1930s

[1920-195x] Clum, Miller, Briggs & Stratton and others produced lock hardware for many automakers, some long extinct

[195x-199x] Cadillac, a division of GM, delivered their new cars with distinctive OE keys


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