These babies are the pinnacle of safety, I am sure. Ha! Actually, I wouldn't install one of these unless I was trying to cash in on the old nag's life insurance, but you do whatever you feel is best. Anybody wanna take a crack at guessing how they work? By "gas heaters", do you suppose they mean these run on petrol? Because it looks to me as if you run a line from your fuel tank and then run electricity to a small fan inside. Yowza. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-10-Stewart-Warner-Antique-Gas-Car-Heaters-South-Wind-20s-30s-40s-/350538202279?pt=Vintage_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item519db47ca7 I just thought some of you might find these interesting. I've never even heard of such a thing. They kinda look cool though.
from the company website A WORLD LEADER IN HEAT TRANSFER PRODUCTS For over 60 years, Stewart Warner South Wind Corporation has been designing and manufacturing heat exchangers and mobile combustion heating units for critical and demanding aerospace, transportation, defense and process industry applications. The company’s roots date back to the 1930’s when the South Wind gasoline fired heater was standard automotive equipment in America. The South Wind Division of the former Stewart-Warner Corporation was established in the 1940’s to pursue the design and manufacture of combustion heaters and heat exchangers for military vehicles and aerospace applications. Starting in the 1960’s, the company became one of the world’s leading suppliers of large aluminum heat exchangers for the chemical processing and air reduction industries. ++++ South Wind gas heaters are easy to install and have an attractive Art-Deco look that fit perfectly with old cars. South Wind heaters were originally created by the Stewart-Warner company for American cars from the thirties to the fifties, when factory heaters didn’t exist or didn’t work very well when they did. Over three million were sold. They can be installed by any competent mechanic in any front-engine six volt car (and will work with twelve volts if you use a converter). They work by burning gasoline vapour under a vacuum so leakage or fumes do not occur. They are totally reliable and look and work great! hmm, so no different to eberspacher
