Cool Junkyard Find

[CruisinGA]

Yesterday I happened upon a pretty neat junkyard find, I had been told the cruisers whereabouts, but had never been able to check it out until yesterday.
Turns out it has a Ramsey PTO winch, and a Air Conditioning kit. It is not a retrofitted factory unit, and it uses a York compressor.
It also has the long rear jumps, in really good shape (don't even need new vinyl).
If it had been a Toyota PTO I think I would have wet my pants on the spot.

Anyone know anything about this Air Cond.? It says "Made for Toyota" right around the knobs, I did not have a long time to look at it and didn't see any other writing anywere. It looks really rough in the pics, but the A/C is just dirty and somewhat faded.

Not sure what year it is, forgot to look at the vin plate, it has three on the tree, the old style rear bumper (two red lights), square yellow turns, no bib lights, and a 1BBl aisin.

I'm callin the guy tomorrow to see what he would take for the whole thing. I figure i can get a winch, air conditioner, and a bunch of spares for less than a new elec. winch.

 

[IDave]

Kinda cool, Bailey. A 1 bbl carb? Small window?

 

[nocents]

That air conditioner looks similar to the "vintage air" set-up. I think Rock Mountian Cruisers sells them.

Nocents

 

[Landpimp]

na.......its like a 70ish, no bib lights, so it shouldn't have(as in stock) a 1 barell.

Yeah I have seen a set up like that............don't know where.

cool score.

Kinda cool, Bailey. A 1 bbl carb? Small window?

 

[Lusedekache]

The PTO control knob is interesting, was it a cable linkage? Did the winch run off a Toyota PTO?

 

[Rock_Hugger]

I had put that same A/C bracket on my F motor for on board air. It is a nice bracket.

 

[zebrabeefj40]

The control knob is on the end of a cable to a Ramsey PTO that bolts to the back of the Toyota t-case. It's my understanding that the Ramsey winch was offered as a dealer option like locking hubs. Anyone got any lit to support that or is it an urban legend? If my Ramsey PTO and I were in the same part of the country I'd post a pic or two...



Nick Jennings

 

[65swb45]

You have nailed it down to a two month time span:

Jan or Feb 1969.

Square turn signals didn't start until 1/69

1bbl carb was Jan and Feb 69 or older. 3/69 was the start of the 2bbl.

Seen a couple of those early York systems. None of them were in working condition. Can't comment on durability.

 

[Dave E]

Ac

You got to love those sweet hose connectors on the AC though.

 

[DocB]

I saw an early 70s 40 in a junkyard recently; rolled, engine/tranny gone, interior trash. Probably not worth hauling out of there, may get next to nothing for the frame and the time it takes to tear it down / part it out would not be worth it. I may go have a closer look though.

 

[CruisinGA]

Thanks Mark, that is the info i was looking for.

Has (had) large windows in hardtop, Dave.

None of the A/C parts looked in that bad of shape, I'm gonna try to resurrect it.

I'm much more interested in the Ramsey winch head than the gearbox, as I've got a toyota PTO gearbox on its way soon i hope, and I just found a company that sells new pto drives for SM420 transmissions, for when I get mine swapped in.

 

[Landpimp]

10/69 was i show the last month of the bib lights.

I have a Ramsey PTO case in the shed......if some cares

You have nailed it down to a two month time span:

Jan or Feb 1969.

Square turn signals didn't start until 1/69

1bbl carb was Jan and Feb 69 or older. 3/69 was the start of the 2bbl.

Seen a couple of those early York systems. None of them were in working condition. Can't comment on durability.