[AT] cold weather vehicles

[Ronald L. Cook]

My 40 Ford has an exhaust pipe heater with an intake behind the engine 
driven fan and a 6 volt blower in line.  A part of the exhaust pipe has 
a shroud around it to collect the heat.  Also it has defrosters and it 
all worked reasonably well until the blower motor quit working.  Then it 
only worked with ram-air.  It is a fresh air heater, so the windows did 
not frost up all that bad.  It is no longer on the car and I don't 
remember where I put the darned thing, but if I ever find it, I will put 
it back on.  It is sort of an interesting option as long as there are no 
exhaust leaks.  I don't know what years Ford offered those, but I 
imagine for several years running.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

Indiana Robinson wrote:
> 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...
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> 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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