Bodywork, Paint, Trim, & Interior

If you used a Tata air motor your exhaust temperature would be 0-15 F, suitable for "free" ac. All is not hot air, on this forum. Good Luck, roverman.

I bow to the voice of experience. Tim

Thank you Tim,
I drove that thing two years as a daily driver in traffic windows down and the top up rear window zipped down bare bones no blower or fan, no radio, just rumble, and smell like exhaust, foggy windsheild during rainy season, and hot feet from the foot box not being insulated, It was a very fun ride being miserable in that old thing! I will be letting y'all know how the ride is soon as it will be on the road in 2 weeks I hope.

Heck I'm still debating a custom fabbed hard top in the near future.

I hope the Roverman knows I was responding to Geoff's previous post and not his "hot air " joke. Yes John let us know how the car performs. Tim

Clan, It's a fine line, global warming or nuclear winter. "Somewhere" there is equilibrium ? Does someone think I have hot air ? - don't answer/lol. Cheers, roverman.

John,

I don't know if you're married, but, my wife has already requested AC. I don't even have a build sheet yet . . . she doesn't care if there's a radio or springs & shocks, just AC and some go-fast with the proper sound track.

NCtim

Oh yeah, been married since '04, together since 00 and known each other since kindergarten, and very patient with my back yard projects luckily, she figures its better for me to be back there than at a bar.

And she's right! I was a bartender at a bar in college that was remarkably similar to "Cheers." I had my regulars and their drink was made before they got to their stool. I had two lawyers, an accountant, a college professor, and a realtor. The regulars ran tabs all week and paid me on Fridays, with tip. I got some great life-lessons from that experience. First I realized that when I got married I wanted to be excited to get home and see my wife, not spend a couple of hours in a bar before dragging my butt home. Second, I had 2 MGs and an Austin Healey 100-6 that always needed attention. I figured what they were spending on bar tabs I could buy a lot of cool car parts and court the ladies and have $$ left over after I got out of college and I wouldn't smell like popcorn and liquor when I got home.

I think that's why I'm still the luckiest man on earth! I'm still excited to get home from the office to my beautiful wife of 28 years and she encourages my projects. If she wants AC then I'll give her the 40lbs of additional weight on the front end. If I was that concerned about weight I could lose 15lbs and get under 190, but I love to cook too much. I sacrificed for too many years to give up good food now.

Cheers,
NCtim

Im building a 1973 Stag, that originally had a/c Living in South Florida I cannot imagine not having air. I drove my classic around Southern California and Seattle for years and a/c was always ditched in favor of weight savings. Not this time. This build has to have air even with top down ill run the air. I think im going with a ford 5.0/T5 but im leaning towards a chevy 4.3 and T5 just because im guaranteed to have more space for the a/c bits and abig radiator to keep the whole mess cool.

Hi Mitchell,
It's a little far away but the Craigslist for Vancouver B.C. Canada, has what looks like a well done Stag with a chevy FI 5.0L
New paint and a hard top for $4900.00 Canadian. Or $0.86 if you factor in the US. exchange rate!
Haven't seen it in person but it sure is tempting.
Cheers
Fred

And o yeah, A/C all the way.
I'm in the same boat with the lovely Lynne (and i'd like to stay there)

Nice car but I major issue which I cannot overcome....Hood scoop..No way I can drive this car with any visible body modifications..
Would be nice for when im home to cruise around Seattle but that darn hood scoop.

Actually even in Seattle I want AC... in 2008 Winter there was more snow that year than the last 30 winters combined 2009 summer reached triple digits heat for 4 days.. My house has no AC, I was sleeping outside on my boat in the yard.....

That little sliver on the hood bothers you? I've only seen a few stags and had you not mentioned it I'd have never realized that wasn't stock. Looks great to me. And at US$4200 that'd be hard to pass up if it were near me!