Makes you realize why the column shifter and sidewall mounted parking brake pedal were such neat ideas. THINK about it.
When the previous owner of my 55 1st edition replaced the locks, he evidently fixed this: he installed matching keyed locks in BOTH doors and the glove comaprtment. I am grateful for that, although the passneger door lock seems reluctant to be locked from the key, but locks fine by pushing the interior door handle forward.
Interestingly, the glove comaprtment door will ONLY open if you insert the key AND simultaneously psuh the button USING the key to do so. Even when UNlocked, the glove compartment door will unlatch via button but NOT open without someone applying simulatenous PULL force to the drivers side edge of the door. BY using the key, you evidently keep the lock unlatched while pulling on the key slightly to open the door.
I attribute this to incorrect installation of the actual latch in the dashboard. I know it had to be like this for a LONG time, as the driver's side edge of the glove comaprtment door has worn paint where someone evidently stuck somethining thin (not just a finger)between the door and the dash to help pull it open!
Is this part of the "history and patina"??
Jim G
