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65 THUNDERBIRD

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After 138 hours I finally have the T-Bird down to bear metal.  With all the paint off I can see the amount of body damage there is on both sides of the car that was covered up with Bondo and gold paint.  The under side of the hood and trunk is also striped.  Next I was going to repair or replace the vacuum lines that are mostly on the A/C system  You can see from these two pictures that there are a lot of vacuum on this unit including a very complicated vacuum switch that rotates to select the correct vacuum port to be operated (above in the middle). The old system was removed and a new one bought with no vacuum control.  I looked on line and found a company,Classic Auto Air, that makes a A/C system for non A/C Thunderbird's. I called to see if it could be used in a car with existing A/C and they said yes with some modifications, the control panel had to changed out for a heat only T-Bird that I bought on E Bay, a adapter, that they make, must be bought to use t