Urgent help needed - stranded 1962 Olds near Boston

[gregleck]

I drove my 1962 Olds Dynamic 88 three hundred miles to my college reunion at Tufts University in Medford, Mass, just outside of Boston.

 

While walking around campus, I lost the keys.  After three hours of retracing my steps, contacting campus police and checking all the places I visited, I still did not find them.

 

Keys are ignition, trunk, and locking gas cap - three keys.

 

Called AAA but every locksmith they contacted told me they cannot do the job

 

Taxi driver told me I should just be able to pull the wires off from the back of the dashboard, and wire a new switch in.  Then crowbar off the locking gas cap.  (There is only a quarter tank of gas in the tank - not enough to get home.)

 

Will this work?  I am now ten miles away from car so cannot fool with it until Saturday morning.

 

Other option is to call GM dealers in the area and see if they have the ability to pull the cylinder and make a new key, or replace the cylinder.  Car would have to be towed there.

 

Anyone have any other ideas?

 

At this rate I will be missing most of the reunion.

 

The ironic part is the car ran perfectly and had no trouble keeping up with 70 mph traffic.

 

Greg

 

 

[joe_padavano]

See my response to your other identical thread.

[C Carl]

Greg found his keys in the library.  - C