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My '72 is one that had factory a/c in it when I got it.....actually, mine was in pretty good shape as far the hose still being there and the system being intact.....but after checking into the system, I was not impressed with what VW had to do in order to get a/c to work in a rear engine air cooled underpowered car.....I really felt bad for the engineers! The condenser is wedged in up front in front of the axle....yep, a place where so little air gets there that they installed a exposed electric fan behind it.....it had rubber a/c hoses running along the length of the car, outside of the floor pan (alotta rubber to get abuse)....that huge compressor hogging power and space in the engine compartment, and requires big holes in the blower housing to allow a belt thru (I thought the intent was to not have any air leaks here, you know, draw in fresh air from outside the engine compartment)....a under dash unit to provide the blown cold air, mind you it wasn't designed INTO the dash, but a huge bolt-on unit hung UNDER the dash.....(oops, radio is there....aw, just rebolt the radio underneath the a/c unit).........some other bolt-on thing under the front fender (I bet this held up well here in snow belt cars back then).... like I said, I felt bad for those engineers, I wouldn't want to be their supervisor writing their performance evaluations that year!...lol..... "upon further review", I decided to remove my a/c system and save it for prosperity.......just my opinion Dave Pallo His: '96 Impala SS...(Sunny Sundays) Hers: '72 Square...(into new winter paint job) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~