Alright so its not MY car persay, but heres the story...
A friend of my had an uncle that was a car collector and somewhat recently past away. Most of his cars were left to his family with a 1969 Mustang mach 1 with the 428 cobra engine, left to his brother (my friends dad). The problem is the car has been sitting for awhile and the key is nowhere to be found.
We did find a old key that said ford on it, that fits in the door and ignition perfectly, but it won't turn so we suspect the car doesn't have the original ignition cylinder and door locks because we're pretty sure that this was the key for the mustang at some point (the car was completly restored at some ponit and lots of parts were replaced).
Now, my friend and I really would like to get the car started so we can, you know maybe take her around the block a few times or something
and my friends dad is cool with it if we can figure out how to get it started and we're careful with it.
We are considering ordering a new ignition cylinder, but that seems like a bit of a pain, and would probably be awhile until we could get a hold of one and get it put in, so we were wondering if there is anything we could do in the mean time just to see if it starts and maybe take it on a little "test" drive until we can find a permanate soloution. We were thinking it might be easy to hot wire, considering it is a pretty old car after all, and the wires coming out of the back of the ignition cylinder are somewhat accessable, but there are like 5 of them (red w/green stipe, yellow, brown, green w/blue stripe, lt. brown......not really sure on the colors as I'm just going off memory) But we really have no idea which wires are which or which ones to cut/cross to make it work. We also played with the idea of picking the lock on the cylinder, but the best we could come up with was a little screwdriver for a tension wrench and a paper clip for a lock-pick, neither me or my friend are very experianced locksmithes, so we didn't have much luck there.
So that is where we are at now, the car is in a shop about 15-20 minutes away from us, but we are thinking about going back tomorrow to play with it a bit some more and try to work something out, and any insite or ideas on how we can make this thing start would be of great help to us.
On a side note, I'd just like to say this car is amazing. Its all black, completly restored and looks brand new inside and out. It has a 428 cobra-jet engine with a 4-speed manual and the engine bay is just so clean I wanted to start licking it. Me and my friend are usually more import guys (I drive a rx-7, he has a dsm and a R1) but this car is just pure sex. This car is like a history lesson(after all, the car is twice my age!) but I deffinatly don't want to sleep through it. So please help us out!!! Any help you give us will be educating a couple ricers about some classic american muscle
Thanks a lot in advance!!!!
A friend of my had an uncle that was a car collector and somewhat recently past away. Most of his cars were left to his family with a 1969 Mustang mach 1 with the 428 cobra engine, left to his brother (my friends dad). The problem is the car has been sitting for awhile and the key is nowhere to be found.
We did find a old key that said ford on it, that fits in the door and ignition perfectly, but it won't turn so we suspect the car doesn't have the original ignition cylinder and door locks because we're pretty sure that this was the key for the mustang at some point (the car was completly restored at some ponit and lots of parts were replaced).
Now, my friend and I really would like to get the car started so we can, you know maybe take her around the block a few times or something
and my friends dad is cool with it if we can figure out how to get it started and we're careful with it.We are considering ordering a new ignition cylinder, but that seems like a bit of a pain, and would probably be awhile until we could get a hold of one and get it put in, so we were wondering if there is anything we could do in the mean time just to see if it starts and maybe take it on a little "test" drive until we can find a permanate soloution. We were thinking it might be easy to hot wire, considering it is a pretty old car after all, and the wires coming out of the back of the ignition cylinder are somewhat accessable, but there are like 5 of them (red w/green stipe, yellow, brown, green w/blue stripe, lt. brown......not really sure on the colors as I'm just going off memory) But we really have no idea which wires are which or which ones to cut/cross to make it work. We also played with the idea of picking the lock on the cylinder, but the best we could come up with was a little screwdriver for a tension wrench and a paper clip for a lock-pick, neither me or my friend are very experianced locksmithes, so we didn't have much luck there.
So that is where we are at now, the car is in a shop about 15-20 minutes away from us, but we are thinking about going back tomorrow to play with it a bit some more and try to work something out, and any insite or ideas on how we can make this thing start would be of great help to us.
On a side note, I'd just like to say this car is amazing. Its all black, completly restored and looks brand new inside and out. It has a 428 cobra-jet engine with a 4-speed manual and the engine bay is just so clean I wanted to start licking it. Me and my friend are usually more import guys (I drive a rx-7, he has a dsm and a R1) but this car is just pure sex. This car is like a history lesson(after all, the car is twice my age!) but I deffinatly don't want to sleep through it. So please help us out!!! Any help you give us will be educating a couple ricers about some classic american muscle
Thanks a lot in advance!!!!
The only downside is that you'll have to pull the wires off the solinoid to shut the car off because this method takes the switch out of the equation anyway. I mean, the 2 terminals you have to jump across are staring straight at you when you open the hood, what more could you ask for? OTOH, if it's on a hill, pop it in 1st and push start it! 
