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Date:         Wed, 13 Dec 1995 13:55:15 -0800
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From:         raven@halcyon.com (Mark McCulley)
Subject:      Re: Heat in a '74

I also live in soggy Seattle and drive a '74. My heating system is in pretty good shape and once the engine gets good and warm, it will defrost if I'm cruising. But not during city driving or sitting in a traffic jam. So, I usually carry a towel or two.

-Mark McCulley

>Thanks for the tip. It isn't really the heat I have a problem with, >since it doesn't get below 35-40 too much here, but the defrost. In the >rain my windshield is a foggy mess. I have a little fan attached to the >dash, but it blows cold air on me as well. Plus, it does nothing to melt >the ice that occasionally forms on the windows. Scraping removes it, but >as I drive it reforms. The heat gets to the interior ok, but without >enough force to do much good. It ends up fogging the windshield worse >than if the heat were off. > >Craig > >


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