Re: IML: anyone ever used dry ice to cool your Imperial?

[Chris Hawkins <imperial1966@xxxxxxxxx>]

A/C was installed in about 1500 Packards beginning
with the 1940 model up through the beginning of WW2. 
Cadillac installed it in about 300 1941 models.  A/C
was offered in the 1941 Crown Imperial, also. (I saw
it featured on a whole page of a 1941 Crown Imperial
brochure.)  There was a full page magazine ad for a
1942 Desoto which focused on its latest accessory -
factory installed A/C.  So apparently Chrysler
expanded its A/C availability the following year.  

A/C was dropped from factory accessory lists on all
makes until being reintroduced industry-wide in 1953.

Chris H







--- JIM LORENZEN <jdlpdx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Actually, I believe Packard was the first make to
> offer factory airconditioning.  It was an option on
> the 1941 models.
> 
> Jim L. in OR
>     '60 Crown 4dr Southampton
>     '62 Crown 4dr Southampton
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: RODGER D. REDDISH 
>   To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:26 AM
>   Subject: Re: IML: anyone ever used dry ice to cool
> your Imperial?
> 
> 
>   Hola Hugh
> 
>   Even though it is said that MoPar/Chrysler started
> A/C in vehicles, the line was short at first due to
> the cost.  That is why the passenger door mounted
> "swamp cooler" lived on until the mid 70's as an new
> item in the box item.
> 
>   I have one that I searched almost five years for. 
> I now move it from an 47 De Soto "Custom" S-11, to
> an 1970 short wheel base Dodge W100 ( Power Wagon )
> "Custom" Truck or an 1978 Dodge D150.  Since I have
> the Le Baron's, the A/C equipted car is an givin.
> 
>   Think of this.  An dual rear part of an A/C unit
> mounted in your trunk ( as it would have been in
> yester-year ) and the cooler's and etc mounted up
> front.  The mounts for this will be needed to be
> fab'ed and the A/C can be controlled from the dash
> using the OEM switches of an dual air car.  Add
> wiring to make the electric's work and after the
> unit is in place take the car to an shop for the
> hoses to be made and routed to the front parts and
> the rear part.
> 
>   Rodger & Gabby
>   COS
> 
> 
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: Hugh, 58 Imperial 
>     To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>     Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:09 AM
>     Subject: IML: anyone ever used dry ice to cool
> your Imperial?
> 
> 
>     I just heard that it may once have been popular
> to cool your car with a dry 
>     ice tube of some sort.  If anyone has ever used
> this technique or could 
>     point me in the direction of more information, I
> would appreciate it.  I 
>     dare say there are quite a few people out there
> with an earlier Imperial 
>     that doesn't have A/C so it may be relevant to
> the list but reply to me 
>     directly if there is a danger of starting a
> seriously non- Imperial related 
>     thread.
> 
>     Thanks, Hugh
> 
>     imperial58@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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