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Old March 28th, 2014, 09:19 PM
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vintage water cooler / AC tutorial

I'm not sure if this would be wanted or needed but if anyone is interested I can put a little tutorial together on how to rebuild/ restore a vintage auto water cooler. I took a bunch of pictures when I rebuilt mine and this may interest a few of the vintage guys doubtful many A body guys will be installing these on their 442's but they have there place on the old iron.

If no interest (no problem) I'll save my typing finger for something else....Lost in the fifties ...Tedd
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Old March 28th, 2014, 09:57 PM
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I'd be willing to bet there would be some interest Tedd
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Old March 31st, 2014, 06:50 PM
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Not to date myself but I remember driving across the southwestern deserts in the 60's with one of those hanging off the window on my family's new '57 ford wagon.
I left that one in the attic when I sold my moms house.
They must be really rare!
When even the cheesiest econobox you can buy today has A/C how many remember this?
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Old March 31st, 2014, 07:10 PM
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I remember them but we never had a car with one on it. These were popular about the same time water bags were popular.
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I had my 10 year old son at a car show, there was a pickup there with one of those units on it. He got such a kick out it when I told him it was the a/c.
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"even the cheesiest econobox you can buy today has A/C "
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Not so
Remember the "cash for Clunkers" program?
I considered giving up the Man Van for $5k towards a new car.
The only one I could afford maybe even with that was a Hyundai with no AC and no power anything. The ones with AC started at $18k. And they were not inclined to bargain.

I stuck with the Man Van. $200 a month will buy a lot of gas.
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