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Subject:Re: RoadHaus - Front AC Kit Install / Final Report
From:John Andrew
Date:Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:13:52 -0700

My 1987 Syncro Adventurewagen has a Behr indash air conditioner with the
vents where the radio normally would go.  The radio is mounted on top of the
dash in a plastic housing.  My 1980 Westfalia had the same housing except
the housing was mounted vertically down by the floor in front of the
shifter.  It would be nice to be able to find just the vent like Larrys to
swap the two around.  I plan on adding the rear air con as well when I
install the interior from a wrecked 1985 Westfalia GL I just got at an
auction.  The Adventurewagen's interior is pretty well trashed.

John Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, December 21, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: RoadHaus - Front AC Kit Install / Final Report

>I saw an air cooled Vanagon in a wrecking yard with an A/C system that
>seemed
>to be similar to the one on Stan's website in that it had a center vent
>in
>the dash where the radio would normally mount. The Vanagon I saw was
>pulled
>apart and had no radio in it. But it made me wonder with the center A/C
>vent
>using the stock radio hole where would the radio have been mounted?
>-------------------------- Clip --------------------
>I've seen consoles on both Automatics and Standard Shift Vanagons.
>As someone else mentioned they radio is almost vertical ......... great
>dust catcher.
>The Standard shift radio setup was just an add on panel (box) front of
>the shifter, screwed to the vent and the floor pan.
>The automatic radio mount was a more elaborate setup with the radio
>behind the shifter, the console wrapped around the Auto Shifter console
>and looked good.
>
>Stan Wilder
>
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