AD heater cores new bad news.
Well since I’m waiting on parts, I spent most of the day looking at all of the 60’s up Chevy heater cores.
You weren’t just kiddin’ when you said that Parts Train had a lot of heater cores, 32 pages 480 items and that was just the Chevy heater cores. I looked at each one and printed out the pics and sizes of all the different versions.
Two things stand out, one is that all of them, bar none, have their IN and OUT tanks running across a horizontal row of holes with one in the front and another in the back. With the AD Deluxe cores one tank covers half the tubes on the right and the other tank covers half the tubes on the left. Also the AD appears to be a three-inch core and the later tanks all appear to be two-inch cores.
The second thing that stands out is the prices. A very rare 60’s Corvette or Chevy LUV runs almost $100, the common passenger car and truck copper cores run from $20 to $50 with the average running around $30. Now if they can find enough market for a ’63 Vette or ‘75 LUV to make and stock heater cores, then they certainly orta find a market for tens of thousands of Advance Design Chevy Trucks.
Now I need to see how many look like they would fit in the Deluxe housing if they were modified.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
