who make a good heater other than spedway?

anybody know of a good aftermarket heater other than speedway?

 

Vintate Air makes a nice little one. You can get it with or without defrost. I put one in my 40 pickup and it runs me out on low.

http://www.vintageair.com/catalog09/09%20VintageAir%20Catalog%2023.pdf

 

I would refurb a vintage one and put it in. There are several threads on vintage heaters from all makes. I put a 40's Chev heater in my roadster with a 12v computer fan and it is awesome!



Mojave makes a decent aftermarket one - but they do not have the character an older heater has...

 

Southern Hot Rods has a couple:
http://www.southernrods.com/categories/heating-and-cooling/heaters/southern-air-1.html

 

Mr 40's fat stuff has one that is compact and ready to go.

 

x2. I have old re-cored in my jalopies.
A quick search got these...........

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1930...r_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item2a02a0e3f3

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1940...r_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item27acf64cf5

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1940...r_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item3eef330a04

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1948...r_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item414a9fcaf2

 

I have heard of guys using these. They are small, simple to hook up, cheap, and pretty 'vintage'.

Thinking about giving one a shot myself, but don't really see the point of a heater when I have open windows...

http://www.armysurpluswarehouse.com/product/jeep-heater-3259.cfm

 

damn! thats awesome, I have a pretty old case but the core is toast., maybe I can hide that inside my arvin case

 

Firestone...

 

what does the core look like in this one?, round?

 

40's and older heaters are very cool. not sure why someone would consider putting some modern box in their HOT ROD. first thing I'd do is find out what heater your car came with and go from there.

 

Just bought one from Southern Rods and it keeps it mighty toasty!
Very pleased with it.

 

If it's just heat you want, I've been very pleased with the store brand mojave style heater that Summitt sells. I put one in the '46 pickup at the end of last winter and wondered why I waited so long. Sturdy metal case materials and a great price, too.

 

The red coolant knob looks great .

 

Jeg's has one in the flier I got yesterday

 

I agree with 54BOMB, restore a vintage one. I also did that for my 40', I found on fee-bay, it was cheap, small, and looks great.

 

Excellent web site! Thanks.

 

Well, depending on the amount of space you need to heat, here's what I did for my 32 project pictured in my avatar. Heat exits from the bottom on this unit so I trimmed out the bottom of the 46-48 Ford car enclosure. I wanted something vintage but did not want to go through the trouble of getting a 12-volt motor, etc, etc. I don't know how it works since the car is not on the road yet.

 

It's an old Tropic-Aire for my coupe. Found it at a swap meet and cleaned it up a few years ago. Someday when the cars done, it'll keep me toasty. I used a pancake computer fan in the back also.

Pete

 

i like southern rods or southern air, and for side windows, lexan works great until you can get the real gl***

 

It is a rectangle. The corners of the tank are rounded off to fit in the round housing.

 

Ive got an old vintage heater coming from a fellow HAMBer i bought it off of.
cant wait to dig into it and see what make it is and how i can make it work in my A

looks like this, not to hi-jack..but anyone have any ideas what make and year this might be

 

the heater is cool even with the red control knob.... But i like the cowl steering set up

 

I have one of the Mohave heaters in my car, works well!And innexpensive kinda.

But I do agree, the old style look awesome, but if its gonna be hidden it doesnt really matter.

-Gary

 

what 32SEDAN said....

rebuild restore a vintage one.

 

All of these opinions are great, restore a vintage one X 100... but... who makes a new good heater other than Speedway?

edit: google pops up quite a few of them

 

Check with your local heavy-duty (semi) parts supplier. That is where I work and I got mine from. Compact enough to go behind my dash and even has a defrost option if you choose to use it.

 

vintage auto heat, click here

 

hey.... how'd you do that ??? pretty cool

 

One more vote for the Vintage Air compact unit. Small enough to be out of the way and it will toast you on a cold day. Fuelpump had one in his '50 sedan and it worked great.

Frank