53 chev heater delete

not sure if any one has seen a heater delete option in a 53 chev, i was working on a project car to get parts and noticed that it had a radio blank out plate and then realized that it also had a heater delete. it had a clock which i thought was a option also, strange no heater or radio but has a clock? it was 3 on the tree and it was a 210 series included some pics for those intrested including how it was done on the firewall

 

The car may have come from down south somewhere as back then some people where it stayed warm most of the time didn't want to pay extra for a heater. In the early 60's I had to install a heater in a car that had come from Hawaii with no heater. Up until the mid 50's a lot of the extras we now take for granted were either factory or dealer installed options. I think the dealer installed thing was so that they could show you a car with a low sticker price and then add on the extras at the dealership.

 

also there were a lot of aftermarket heaters (and radios) available. The add on heaters did not use the factory heater holes.

 

53 pontiac i got rid of recently had no radio and no heater. just these little louvers in place of where it all would have been, some one later had installed the aftermarked heater you see under the dash. as for the clock , maybe the original owner was a punctual fellow.

 

My dad bought a new 53' 210 4 door from a used car lot in 54.They a few of them no radio no heater. We lived in Yonkers NY. I remember riding in back with my sister warped in blankets.

 

that pontiac dash could be real cool

 

I added the radio and the heater deletes on my 56 Ford.



The firewall plate. There is another block off plate not shown in the fresh air duct that would have fed the blower motor. The vendor that sold this to me said it all came from a New Mexico car. Radio deletes are pretty common...heater deletes are not... in my area anyway.

 

yea i dug it, but i traded the car off for a 28-29 A coupe project i thought it was an odd dash too, first i ever seen

 

my 54 had a clock and heater delete but came with a radio. that was till i cut it all out and put in a 52 Olds dash in.

 

lets see a pic of the dash

 

My 53 and 54 both have the heater delete plate. The firewalls on both were plugged with rubber.

 

Thanks for the info, I found a heater delete plate and cable in a box of stuff that came with my 54 chevy and didn't know what it was. Now I do, thanks again.

 

Some of us are old enough to remember when a car was "loaded" if it had a radio, heater, and white sidewalls. Prior to WWII, nearly all optional equipment was dealer installed, and a lot of it was well into the '50s (especially on trucks). My parents bought a new '50 Ford at Drake Motor Co. in Rockmart GA. The radio on that car was installed at the dealership before they took delivery. (I found the invoice for that car after my parents died.)

 

thats a cool dash job

 

wow a lot of good work to get a cool custom dash, is that a factory oldsmobile clock??

 

^^^ yes it is.