Power Pro upgrade

[JPG]

A good friend has a car that uses a fob he keeps in his pocket! No keys! Last summer, his oldest grandson decided he should have a keyless front entry, too so bought the kit and installed it. A day or two later as we come back from lunch he goes to the front door and cannot remember the combination! his wife is not home and won't answer her cell phone. About twenty minutes later we finally reach his grandson who gives him a passcode. Yes the front door DOES allow a key to be used, but it had been left inside the house, nice and safe! If we had taken his car that didn't use the keys we could have gone in through the garage, but I drove. I'll stick with keys or maybe upgrade to voice activation or find a nice cave!!

I miss the days when we left the house unlocked and the car keys above the visor!:(

Be well,
Ben

Howcum you took them out of the ignition?

Are you old enough to remember the 'key' locked the steering wheel and it needed to be unlocked to flip the ignition switch? The starter switch was a separate push button.

No I do not go back so far as to remember the Model T, but I do remember a few 'cranks' on 30s models in the 40s. Great when yer battery was 'weak'.

[billmayo]

Brings back memories. I was lucky to live on a mountain side so I always parked with the front of the car down. I did not use a starter each day as all the cars were manual transmissions. In fact, I would always look for a downward slope to park when I could so I did not need the starter. The 6 volt batteries were quite weak for starting engines. I quickly converted all my 6 volt cars to 12 volts as most 6 volt batteries that came with each car died quickly. I used a 12 volt battery and believed I used a 12 volt generator and regulator but may have used the 6 volt ones until they died. I used a large step down resistor pack from JC Whitney to supply 6 volt power to lights, radio and gauges. What fun times was those days.