Coolest Heater, Ever

I've never seen a heater shaped like an old truck grille. This is cool! On ebay...

I bought a 600 square foot storage contents and all of the bits and pieces are IHC from the early 1950s. This TRICO vacuum operated fan was in one of the many pails of fasteners. I intend to do a restoration on this Trico-fan and then have it in my crewcab. Yes. the 24 valve has a gear driven vacuum pump ahead of the power steering pump.

I bought a 600 square foot storage contents and all of the bits and pieces are IHC from the early 1950s. This TRICO vacuum operated fan was in one of the many pails of fasteners. I intend to do a restoration on this Trico-fan and then have it in my crewcab. Yes. the 24 valve has a gear driven vacuum pump ahead of the power steering pump.

I think I have at least a piece of one of those vacuum fans. The base on the one in your picture looks just like a piece I have here. Too bad the rest is missing. I have a dim memory of seeing it bolted to the dash of the 39 Ford when I was a little kid.

Those Vacuum fans are neat, but I not sure I would want one on a gasoline engine. Back then they thought of vacuum as "free" accessories, but you are creating a vacuum "leak" and changing the mixture. Power brakes and 2spd shifts aren't so bad because they are not continuous "leak" but wipers and fan motors are, the whole time they are on.
If I find one of those fans, I'd buy it and restore it but not use it I don't think.

I bought a NOS Motorola heater because I thought it looked "neat" It is the one pictured in this manual
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1946-Motorola-F ... SwrklVaKNu

Those Vacuum fans are neat, but I not sure I would want one on a gasoline engine. Back then they thought of vacuum as "free" accessories, but you are creating a vacuum "leak" and changing the mixture. Power brakes and 2spd shifts aren't so bad because they are not continuous "leak" but wipers and fan motors are, the whole time they are on.
If I find one of those fans, I'd buy it and restore it but not use it I don't think.

Whenever I ran a vehicle with vacuum wipers it always seemed that the engine got priority for the vacuum. Wipers would pretty well stop on acceleration of the engine. My 52 Merc has vacuum heater controls (disconnected now).

Had one of those fans in my 37 Diamond T, the knob below it is for a rheostat horn, you could make it growl quietly all the way up to a howl,

I forgot to pull it out when I sold the truck,

That heater looks a lot like a 1937 Olds frontend

Edit: wow that guy is proud of that heater,,,,,,,

Yes...it does look like that Olds grille. And...yes...it's a bunch of money!

someone bought it

My goodness. I'm pretty sure it didn't go into a IHC. The price for the heater is my entire budget, sometimes.