Seems dangerous, like someone could sideswipe you at any moment. It’s like those people who take pictures at the Grand Canyon with one foot hanging over the edge

More than likely it’s on its way out of state having been traded for a couple days fix worth of heroin. It will if I were a wagering man I would put odds on it turning up somewhere between Connecticut and New York.

In related news look for an OD in the area in the next day or two and you have a prime suspect.

Kind of feel like there probably is a market for that actually…. Maybe try patreon though before only fans

Had a similar thing happen several years ago but instead of a rifle it was a dog luckily it only scratched the shit out of my car door.

If there are any colleges nearby see if they have a lock sport club. I have never tried a wafer lock myself but everything I have read and seen they are pretty simple and you already have the lock hardware removed from the vehicle so it isn’t like they would have to worry about legality.

Someone out there will do it for free just for the experience probably

That’s kind of what I thought. I knew wafer locks were pretty standard for most cars as far back as I can remember but I don’t think I have ever driven anything that old so wasn’t sure if it was something that started in the 70s

OP should look for a lock sport group. If the local locksmiths don’t want to do it I’m sure someone out there could handle it. I got into lock picking during Covid but never got any wafer picks. I guess I will add them to my Christmas list.

Do you know if the original key was cut on one side or both? I’m not familiar enough with 60s fords but I assume the way you are described the bezel it’s similar to a Mortise cylinder just smaller. if it’s pinned on a single side ANY locksmith should be able to single pin pick and remove the core and repin the cylinder. You may even be able to do it yourself with a bump key.

If the key is double sided then it’s a wafer lock and a bit more complicated but if you have an idea what the key looked like (or if you are lucky) you may be able to do it with a set of auto key jigglers.

This is pretty easy stuff any locksmith should be able to do this. It’s literary one of the first things you learn. I suspect either they don’t want the job because they can’t charge you as much as a lockout/fob program or they are “automotive lock smiths” and don’t actually know how to open an actual lock.

To be fair I would wager any given day at the wal mart parking lot in Augusta you can find a dozen trucks unlocked with guns inside them.

By setting its standards it influences what the manufacturers are going to produce by leveraging their market share. As a producer you manufacture to the highest restrictions because you can’t afford to manufacture for multiple emission standards of each region.

It’s not a conspiracy but because of the market share of the state of California in can influence what manufactures are going to put out. It’s economics.

California does this with everything, or Atleast they try to with varying degrees of success. Just look at the automotive industry.