1965 Door Key

New to this computer thing, so pardon my technical difficulty....also
    new to me is my 1965 Coupe i bought last week...it has only an
ignition key with the car...am i supposed to also have a door key?
Thanks and looking forward to meeting a few cool friends...  

gm has always had primary and secondary keys since the early 30's...  

same as what you have on your ring...

i think the ignition being different from the door key took affect in 69 or in the early 70's when they went to an ignition only primary key...

usually with a different keyway for the door locks...  they repeated the keyway pattern every 4 years...


trying to reduce the amount of try out keys...    there were sets of about 103 keys... that could when properly jiggled into the lock.. open 95% of gm locks..

made it really easy to steal a car...  i even ended up with a set one day when a car thief dropped his set as the cops were after him...    he threw them toward a storm drain opening.. but i got them first...  mom took them.. i don't know what ever happened to them...

when gm went to the dual system.. they also included one more cut..  well actually added one tumbler...   without a cut... it lined up with the top of the key blank...

here is a link to a pdf file for the 62 to 67 door lock catalog.. in pdf form

http://aftermarket.strattec.com/pdf/catalogs/historical/Briggs%20&%20Stratton%201962%20-%201967.pdf

i bet nobody here has that one yet.... it's 95 pages long and covers many cars...   some of the stuff is still available...

who ever scanned it... did a poor job.. not enough detail...  so don't be upset...  you can read most of the part numbers...  

Very nice of you to respond WAYNEP712..Thanks for the
info...it has been 15 years since owning one of these
old vettes...I couldn't quite remember what the deal
was...PEACE OUT...SAM (GunDawg85)