Things that keep me up at night

[westie2]

Our first car with the factory air was a 1958 Chrysler New Yorker that had the plastic tube comming from the back to ward the front.  Would spit ice at us.  In the 60's the Chryslers had the vents in the dash you could push back to flow on the windshield .  One time were traveling o route 66 out to California and dad stopped late one night to get gas and the attedent started washing the windheild and it was frost on the inside of the glass. 

 

[whirlaway]

Chrysler factory air

Chrysler started in the dash factory-air in 57,and some Imperials had a dual system all the way to the later60s,56 was the last year for full trunk A/C.You could still buy add on trunk units in the 60s my friends 61 New Yorker had one.

 

[kenwashesmonday]

Nash/AMC pioneered all up-front air conditioning with help from their Kelvinator division.  They also pioneered the fresh-air car heater back in the 1930s.

 

Quote from the link below:

 

"In 1954, Nash-Kelvinator capitalized on its experience in refrigeration to introduce the automobile industry's first compact and affordable, single-unit heating and air conditioning system optional for its all Nash Ambassador, Statesman and Rambler models. Combining heating, cooling, and ventilating, the new air conditioning system for the Nash cars was called the "All-Weather Eye".

The 1954 Nash models were the first American automobiles to have a front-end, fully integrated heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning system. This was the first mass market system with controls on the dash and an electrically-engaged clutch. This "first true refrigerated air conditioner system" for automobiles was also compact and easily serviceable with all of its components installed under the hood or in the cowl area. With a single thermostatic control, the Nash passenger compartment air cooling option was described as "a good and remarkably inexpensive" system. Entirely incorporated within the engine bay, the combined heating and cooling system had cold air for passengers enter through dash-mounted vents. Nash's exclusive "remarkable advance" was not only the "sophisticated" unified system, but also its US$345 price was significantly less than all the other systems.^"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Eye#All-Weather_Eye

 

[cuffs054]

whirlaway,
I always thought those double A/C units in the big Chrysler sedans were the ultimate in, if you will excuse the pun, cool.

 

[wayupnorth]

I remember Rambler calling their climate control system "Weather Eye"

 

[wayupnorth]

I believe this was from either 1958 or 59.