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As a suggestion to anyone looking to install a heater, and it be effective, I would reference the use of a heater in the HMMWV. My last assignment required I drive my HMMWV around without doors year round. Even though I was near Death Valley, the winters there can be brutally cold with the wind and temperature differential between day and night.

The way the heater works in a HMMWV is simple. Rather than routing the heat through a useless vent, it simply routes through a flex hose. You stick the flex hose under your shirt. The same can be done with the vintage air systems. Leave some extra tubing under the dash. When needed, pull it down and put under your shirt.

Even while driving with a crosswind in 20 degree (F) weather, you get super warm. I’m in the market for another Backdraft and have a dream of one day slapping on snow tires and driving her up to the ski slopes with the skis hanging over the top of the windshield! One day!