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Re: [TR] Aftermarket Heater for TR3?

To: "Karl Vacek" <KVacek@Ameritech.net>, "William Brewer"
Subject: Re: [TR] Aftermarket Heater for TR3?
From: "Carl TR" <cfmtr3a@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:37:59 -0400
If you have upgraded electricals:
12 Volt Rubberized Heater with Fan
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=96144
I like the idea that it is portable and you can re-direct to the windshield 
to defog.

C



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
To: "William Brewer" <wsb1960tr3a@att.net>; "Triumphs" 
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TR] Aftermarket Heater for TR3?


> TSF130L had a round Smiths heater in it when I bought it as a 2-year-old 
> car, in 1965.  I always thought it was original (??)
>
> The same ones are found in T-series MG's, not as factory installations but 
> as common additions.
>
> Also available are the Arnolt heaters, a period accessory originally 
> manufactured for S.H.Arnolt Company in Chicago, a large British car 
> importer and accessory distributor in the late 1940's through early 
> 1960's.  Moss currently sells (or at least recently sold) a reproduction 
> of this heater - it's a steel box, roughly a cube.
>
> Both the original Smiths and Arnolt heaters show up on eBay occasionally, 
> and I think there's a Moss repro on there right now.
>
> Karl
>
>
>
>
>>     So at Triumph-fest I was admiring Herman Van Der Akkers TR3 heater
>> installation. He said he got it through JC Whitney. I went to 
>> JCWhitney.com
>> and they have no such thing. The only thing that they have that looks 
>> like it
>> would work is called "The Mojave Heater", which may or may not fit. Has 
>> anyone
>> got a "Mojave Heater" in their TR3?      Are there any aftermarket 
>> heaters
>> that you can make fit into a TR3?
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