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badbelair |
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Veteran Posts: 282 Location: Henderson, T.N. | Does any one have after market ac system or something that works? | ||
njlimbaugh |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 421 Location: N. Georgia | Take a look at VintageAir; they've been doing A/C for rods for a long time. | ||
57chizler |
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Expert Posts: 3761 Location: NorCal | I have dual Vintage Air units in my '57, top notch quality and they work. I've seen the products of others like Old Air and they too look good. | ||
Rodger |
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Expert Posts: 1506 Location: Colo Spgs | Dwight Does a 1964 NewPort ( 2 bbl 361 ) with the OEM Compressor and related parts with a Under The Dash era after-market unit count ??? Rodger & Gabby COS | ||
Destr0 |
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Veteran Posts: 175 Location: Hebron, IN | My 59 New Yorker has a button on the dash for A/C. I haven't tried it yet but I don't think it will actually do anything... kind of afraid to touch the heater controls right now because the Defrost button is in the glove box and I assume it goes in the empty hole in the heater/AC panel. :-) | ||
d500neil |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Kevin, have you looked under your car's hood, to see if there is a belt-driven big-black-cube-thing (compressor) installed there, and, an extra radiator-looking thing (condenser) which is installed in front of the actual radiator? If I had a 4-door model, I'd have A/C installed in it, for certain. | ||
Destr0 |
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Veteran Posts: 175 Location: Hebron, IN | No there is no longer a condenser or compressor under the hood, however I do have an empty bracket for where the compressor once lived. :-) PO had a complete engine rebuild including .030 over and new pistons, I assume they took all the AC components off at that time. Edited by Destr0 2012-05-21 6:09 PM | ||
lozrox58 |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 306 Location: Newcastle Australia | I'm installing a Vintage Air unit in my 59. Considering it's such a big car there isn't much room under the dash. I found that space was too tight to fit the flexible ducting, so I have made up hard ducting using PVC, fibreglass and aluminium. Edited by lozrox58 2012-06-03 3:39 AM (Xtal_0508.JPG) (Xtal_0470.JPG) (Xtal_0510.JPG) (Xtal_0513.JPG) Attachments ---------------- Xtal_0508.JPG (85KB - 155 downloads) Xtal_0470.JPG (107KB - 146 downloads) Xtal_0510.JPG (114KB - 153 downloads) Xtal_0513.JPG (118KB - 153 downloads) | ||
Christine'sRevenge |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 424 Location: Harrison, NY | Thats really a great idea to use PVC. I like that, great idea. | ||
Kinnectz941 |
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New User Posts: 2 Location: Sarasota, FL | VintageAir I would have to say would be your best bet. Love the photo's keep them coming and keeps us updated. | ||
1961plymouthfury |
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Expert Posts: 2631 Location: Minor Hill, TN | Not me but I wish I did in my 1961 fury. I hope someday to find an underdash unit . If I do I know I will need to move my CD player in the glovbox | ||
Jessica |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1053 Location: Ny | Our '55 has factory dual AC. | ||
FIN ME |
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Expert Posts: 2788 Location: USA - KY | 1961plymouthfury - 2013-03-01 1:18 PM Not me but I wish I did in my 1961 fury. I hope someday to find an underdash unit . If I do I know I will need to move my CD player in the glovbox Vintage Air makes a great reproduction, early 1960's-look under dash unit called the "Mark IV" - might be a good option? | ||
jimntempe |
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | The problem I found with all the "classic car" ac places was that none of them have kits with the right pulley's and the compressor mounts for the older mopar engines. That's the hard part. Once the compressor is mounted and the belts are all in order the rest is straightforward generic add on. | ||
rbmain |
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how many would you sell? 1? 2? of each combination? and not to any big spenders. | |||
jimntempe |
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Expert Posts: 2312 Location: Arizona | I guess I made it sound like I was blaming them but I didn't mean it that way. I agree with you that it would definitely be a low volume item. I found a couple of them that appeared to have the right pulley's and stuff based on their ads but when I called them and they checked it turned out they didn't actually have the stuff. Most likely they did carry it some time in the distant past. Of all the places I called the only one that offered any solution was http://www.bouchillonperformance.com/ . The put together a list of all of the stuff it would take to completely replace all the pulleys plus my PS pump so that I could mount a compressor with their mount. That added up to a fair amount of money. I did by the mount from them and after a lot of searching and false starts finally figured out what used parts from junk yards and/or ebay would work. | ||
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