Factory fitted heater?

[Jembow]

According to latest newsletter from Hagerty the 1929 Model A was the first car to offer the option of a factory fitted heater. Is that true?

 

[McMimmcs]

If it is it’s the first I’ve heard it and I have three 1929 Model A Fords and a 29 Chevrolet.

 

[Mike Peters]

I vaguely remember some sort of vents that you could open and close under the floorboards of our 28 Tudor when I restored it back in the '80's. I took it all out because it was a hopeless mess. Didn't know if that was original or not.

 

[McMimmcs]

Should it not be in the JS?

 

[Mike Peters]

This was left under the rear floorboard of our Tudor. Heater? On the far side there is an opening to attach a hose or steel flex line? Maybe went to the muffler? It's just a vestige from long ago.

 

[Mike Peters]

Should it not be in the JS?

Yes. That's right. What I have on my car is NOT original. Speaking of the JS, on page 16-4 under Accessories, it says that Ford did sell a heater manifold, A-18455, that attached to the stock exhaust manifold. It required that a hole be cut (yikes!) in the fire wall.

 

[Kurt in NJ]

The service bulletins show a tin manifold cover for heater but not factory installed it would have been dealer installed