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Post Info TOPIC: 1973 Oshawa Built A-Body Air Conditioning


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1973 Oshawa Built A-Body Air Conditioning


Does anybody know if Oshawa built cars could be ordered with air conditioning? Every Oshawa car I have owned (2 LeMans and 1 GTO) and every other one I have seen do not have air. Most US built cars seem to have air conditioning. Someone once told me A/C cars were not built in Oshawa.

 



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Neither of my two 73's have had A/C, neither did our 76. 

There is a statement on the 73 Sales Brochure that refers to engines that says Selection of 350 engine is dependent on equipment ordered. So what that means is there are three 350's listed two orange ones and on blue one. I never really thought about what that meant but if Oshawa wasn't building AC cars and a Canadian ordered one it would have to come from a US plant and it would have been a blue engine. I don't know the answer for sure but this might give us a clue.



-- Edited by 73SC on Thursday 2nd of October 2014 03:53:35 PM

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owned  69 &  71 Caprice wagons both with AC, I never thought where they were built. Only assumed Oshawa or Quebec

 There are members on here with 65-70  Parisiennes with AC. ;  Canadian cars.  A friend of mine had a 64 Impala with under dash AC dealer installed. But his 65 Impala

and later model Impalas had in dash AC

Several of the Australian Parisiennes cars seem to have AC

Dale @ NOS 



-- Edited by NOS on Friday 3rd of October 2014 12:43:56 PM

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Those are both B bodies though Dale. I do know that the Frigidaire plant was on Eglinton Avenue in Scarborough right next door to the Old Golden Mile Chev Olds dealer at Pharmacy. 



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Formerly - The one and only 1973 LeMans 454 "Astro-Jet"

Built March 9, 1973 - Oshawa ON

1993 Corvette Convertible LT 1

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73SC wrote:

Neither of my two 73's have had A/C, neither did our 76. 

There is a statement on the 73 Sales Brochure that refers to engines that says Selection of 350 engine is dependent on equipment ordered. So what that means is there are three 350's listed two orange ones and on blue one. I never really thought about what that meant but if Oshawa wasn't building AC cars and a Canadian ordered one it would have to come from a US plant and it would have been a blue engine. I don't know the answer for sure but this might give us a clue.


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 Just thinking ->  if this were true then an L-48 car could not be had with A/C but a 350 2bbl could. confuse I'm starting to doubt this idea that no AC cars out of Oshawa even though I can't remember seeing one. What about that beauty Carnut70ls4 bought in Calgary a month or so ago, it was a loaded 73 Luxury LeMans. Sure looks like an AC car.

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-- Edited by 73SC on Monday 6th of October 2014 10:46:57 PM

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Formerly - The one and only 1973 LeMans 454 "Astro-Jet"

Built March 9, 1973 - Oshawa ON

1993 Corvette Convertible LT 1

Built January 10, 1993 - Bowling Green Kentucky 

 


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hey Ray; sorry got off the 'A' body stream. I have one customer who says his brother had a 69 SD with AC. Black with white guts. Supposidly sold in the Alymer / St Thomas, ON area ???. Who knows ??

 

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So here we go, the brown 73 Luxury LeMans pictured above does have factory AC built in Oshawa, carnut70ls4 confirmed with me.



-- Edited by 73SC on Monday 6th of October 2014 10:47:32 PM

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Built March 9, 1973 - Oshawa ON

1993 Corvette Convertible LT 1

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Thanks Ray. I guess that sort of answers the question. It just seems that every 73-77 Oshawa built A-body I have seen in the US is non-A/C.

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AC was very uncommon here in Canada in any car. My Father's first AC car was a 1980 Grand Prix and he started buying cars just after WWII, a 49 Chev was his first. My first two cars never had it either a 79 and 81. It wasn't until 86 that I started getting AC. So the fact that you don't see it in Canadian built cars isn't really a surprise. 

 



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Formerly - The one and only 1973 LeMans 454 "Astro-Jet"

Built March 9, 1973 - Oshawa ON

1993 Corvette Convertible LT 1

Built January 10, 1993 - Bowling Green Kentucky 

 




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Wrong year,But I looked at a '72 Lemans Post with A/C on the weekend.Oshawa Built!

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CDN2PLS2 wrote:

Wrong year,But I looked at a '72 Lemans Post with A/C on the weekend.Oshawa Built!


 Obviously a Customer ordered car, just like the 73 GLM above.



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Formerly - The one and only 1973 LeMans 454 "Astro-Jet"

Built March 9, 1973 - Oshawa ON

1993 Corvette Convertible LT 1

Built January 10, 1993 - Bowling Green Kentucky 

 


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