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Featured Comment by Charles Sample on February 15, 2016 at 19:10

That is a neat idea!.

Comment by Thor Lars Laizans on February 11, 2016 at 17:27

nice touch 

Comment by pete kelley on February 11, 2016 at 12:22

to Peter Force

Tried to go to that web page. I'd like to talk to someone at Ammon Smith. Maybe there's someone who knows something about these knives

pete

Comment by David Gallup on February 10, 2016 at 18:30

This is totally new to me too but very cool.  Too bad we can't get this functionality today.  A lot of the new cars don't even have a key, just a fob you keep in your pocket.  It unlocks the doors when you get close and you just push a button to start.  All the fob functionality could be built into a knife!

Comment by pete kelley on February 10, 2016 at 17:57

It's just hard for me to believe that most of the car people don't know about them. I have them for all the cars. The ones from the Chevy dealers have the key stamped "KEY TO SERVICE" . I'm not sure of the manufacturer of the blank, but Ia knife for each of the big 3. These blanks are stamped; 3060 for Ford, Lincoln and Mercury 1932 to1951 and also Studebaker 194- to 1953; 3061 for Ford, Lincoln and Mercury 1952 % 1953; 3062 for all General Motors; 3063 and 3064 for Chrysler products. When I take my Chev to the Car Cruises, I show off the knives, and they always draw a crowd. But so far in the seven years I've been driving it and the five years it took me to fix it up, I've not met anyone who says, "Oh ya, I remember them." When I joined iknifecollector, I thought or hoped that some member would have one in his collection. But I'll keep looking.

Pete 

Comment by Jan Carter on February 10, 2016 at 13:27

Well Pete you came to the right place!  All knives are welcome here and their owners can come too as long as they are nice LOL

Imperial may not have been a costly knife when new, but there are still very very many of them in use today, so maybe they were not so cheap as some think!!

Comment by pete kelley on February 10, 2016 at 9:44

ou're not alone on not seeing them. i saw my first one when i was a kid back in the 40's. a guy, that we kids thought was either a gangster or a secret agent, stopped in the grocery store and he had a 37 chevy coupe. when we looked in the window and saw this pen knife in the ignition switch we knew he was a ganster. we knew he heisted the car. he came out and hollered at us for being too close to the car. we asked if he had heisted the car. he laughed and showed us the knife. he told us that the dealers gave them out when you bought a new car. i never saw another one untill i brought the blue car home from the junk yard. it was in a box of junk, the key had been cut and it opened all the doors and ignition switch. that started me on my collection'. i have about 60 of them now. most knife collectors that i talked to about them didn't want to be bothered. they said that the imperial knife was a very cheaply made piece of junk. 

Comment by Michael D. on February 10, 2016 at 8:16

Neat knife. Cooler car! Was it a Fast Back?

In Memoriam Comment by D ale on February 10, 2016 at 6:25

!!! .. I'd never seen one either .. what a cool idea .. what a unique momento .. !!!

Comment by peter force on February 10, 2016 at 0:11

these are actually really cool!!  popular PA business as well!

hey here is a really awesome link http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c1-and-c2-corvettes/3191483-amm...   

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