Capt46
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Have any members ever seen or read any articles with a 1966 barracuda Formula S 4 speed with factory A/C I have searched till my azzzz went numb. I can't find a single one?
Nice readings cool beans.......... thank you.
That's OneNice readings cool beans.......... thank you.
Wheeeeew what a fantastic build!Got Google?
Ive got a 66 barracuda that came with AC
but it is pretty and it is mine ;)
That's not factory A/C, and it's not Chrysler/Mopar/AirTemp dealer A/C, either -- it's pure aftermarket.
Both of those things are very true!
Really now?
Really now. Whoever installed it, and whenever it was done, that A/C setup did not come from any Chrysler channels. The Chrysler "knee knocker" doesn't look anything like that, doesn't have ducts at the left and right corners of the dashboard, doesn't have round knobs. An underhood pic showing the compressor and lines might give some more clues to when it was installed, but this looks much more like a '90s or later setup than a '60s setup.
OK, I'm revising my guess downward to the '80s -- that's a York compressor, which was the standard one for 3rd-party aftermarket systems from the '60s clear on up through the '80s. In the late '80s/early '90s the round Sanden/Sankyo/Seltec compressor became the more popular one, and there are adaptor brackets to drop a S/S/S in place of a York. But those de luxe round ducts you've got at the left and right sides of your dash, I'd be real surprised to see something like that on a '60s-'70s system, so I'm guessing yours was put in sometime in the 1980s.
In 2009 the price of that service was $45, and their archives stopped hard at '67 ('68-up cars outta luck). Don't know if that service is still offered even for pre-'68 cars; they closed down the WPChrysler Museum and don't seem to care much about historical stuff any more.