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Re: 1947 Kaiser" Factory Air "
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2018, 08:43:54 PM »
There appears to be the AC knob at the right end of the row of things below the edge of the dash, but I did not see the "air conditioner" heater box under the dash.

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Re: 1947 Kaiser" Factory Air "
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2018, 09:02:17 PM »
It has a "Southwind" gas heater under the dash where the normal KF "Air Conditioner" would be.  That's a cool (irony I'm sure) old accessory.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/south-wind-heater-service-manual-1941
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Re: 1947 Kaiser" Factory Air "
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2018, 11:21:54 AM »
In 1946 and into 1947, paperrwork from a couple former K-F dealers suggested that because the factory heaters were hard to come by until around summer 1947, they put South Wind units in their cars to make a sale in cold weather.  I don't know if they "recalled" South Wind equipped cars they sold to install the factory unit.  All the cars I have seen with heaters had factory units.

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Re: 1947 Kaiser" Factory Air "
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2018, 12:29:06 PM »
This is from a '47 Kaiser I saw in a salvage yard a few years ago.
1953 Henry J Corsair Deluxe
Edgar Kaiser's custom 1951 Henry J
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