[DeTomaso] A/C Rebuild - Vents

Forest Goodhart forestg at att.net
Sun Jun 19 23:59:14 EDT 2011


I removed two from a 69 T bird and they were exact duplicates.




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From: "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: mazdastuff at yahoo.com; SCPOCA at yahoogroups.com
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Sun, June 19, 2011 8:55:16 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] A/C Rebuild - Vents


In a message dated 6/19/11 20 29 51, mazdastuff at yahoo.com writes:


> Bill Taylor's Gearhead database also list 1969-1970 Thunderbird Vents 
> also.
> 

The USA-made T-bird vents are vaguely similar, but not the same as the 
original Italian vents.  For years I had some vents which I was told were these 
T-bird vents; although they had the same general appearance, they were 
marginally narrower and thus wouldn't fit properly in the De Tomaso vent 
surround.  I imagine you'd have to have the T-bird surround also, in order to 
make 

them work.

(That is, presuming the vents I had were what I was told they were, and not 
from something else).

If you installed these vents in a Pantera, nobody would know the 
difference, but they aren't the same as the Italian ones, so you'd have to 
switch all 

of them over together.

The two-pod dashes had a steel surround for the vents, which was 
upholstered in naugahyde.  The single-pod-dash cars had the same vent in a cheap 

plastic surround--all part of Ford's ongoing effort to make the cars cheaper and 

easier to build.

I think the Euro GTS with its fiberglass single-pod dash, used upholstered 
Pre-L steel vent surrounds?  At least the early ones did?

Mike
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