[AT] cold weather vehicles

[Skip Cleveland]

My brother's first car after his motor bike which lasted a week was a 31 
model A Ford. It had one of the manifold heaters. The car was like new, 
then, the exaust pipe got loose so had to be ripped off which stunk up the 
car. Then out came the wooden floor boards, then the top then the whole 
body. The engine had to be rebuilt or he would piss and moan. New aluminum 
pistons were wrecked when the oil pump fell out from continuous donuts.
This whole episode took about a week.
Shit.
Skip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] cold weather vehicles


> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Bruce Moden <brucemoden at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> We had a 1937 Packard in the days before permanent anti-freeze, used 
>> alcohol & the low temp. thermostat, it never created enough heat to keep 
>> the passengers warm, my dad installed a "Sun" heater under the dash that 
>> actually burned gasoline, worked well, but still didn't defrost the 
>> windows.  The motto of long rides was always "don't anyone breath on the 
>> windows!"  Of course with 4 kids in the car that was the 1st thing you 
>> did.
>> In 1958 I bought a Volvo PV-544 (looked like a 1940 ford 2 dr sedan) & it 
>> had a window shade device that operated by a chain under the dash & the 
>> shade would go up in front of the radiator & warm it up fast - don't 
>> leave it up too long or it would overheat -I guess the Sweed's knew about 
>> cold weather driving!  Mu 1931 Chevy coupe still doesn't have a heater, 
>> none came as standard equipt.
>>
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> You guys remember the exhaust manifold heater on the Model A Ford? It
> had a funnel shaped intake that sat behind the fan and directed the
> air over fins cast onto the top of the exhaust manifold and then
> carried it into the car on the passenger side. It was simple but it
> worked, sort of. It worked best in the summer...
> :-)
> The defroster was a rag laying on the seat beside you or in some cases
> having the lower edge of the windshield opened about an inch.
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