Re: Mystery Holes in Firewall 23rd Series

Posted by HH56 On 2010/4/30 14:17:47

Heater is a possibility and not without good reason. The standard Packard heater was not the fastest or most robust in a really cold climate if that is where the car is from. The only aftermarket heaters I can remember from then were the gas powered South Wind and one or two others but seem to remember all similar in shape--more vertical. Don't recall if many water heaters were available or not but again think they would have been much larger like the 40's Packard types.

I see a single screw hole and shiny area on the cardboard under the present heater plenum where something looks like it might have mounted but it looks too wide and vertically challenged to be for any heaters - also the holes look a bit big for the gas powered.