Numb Fingers and Other Parts

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Feeling really adventuresome, I took my trusty '28H out for a 50-mile

drive today and the overpowering point that I got was that "I Would

Like to be Warmer". Arriving at home (Colorado Springs, 6000+ feet

elevation), it took me close to 4 hours to re-establish feeling in my

fingers and certain other extremities.



All of this is aimed at working on the "cold" problem....I want a

heater for the car. To that end, I researched e-bay and found that I

could buy heaters for old Chevrolets (pretty cool heater), Saabs and

other equally sacreligious-sounding vehicles but nothing generic or

for a Hudson except Stewart Warner South Wind "afterburners" and I

must say that I never quite completely trusted this version of

automobile heater. The idea of something with a gasoline fire inside

that close to my kind of smelly old Marvel Carburetor is a little

disconcerting.



I have a couple of questions:



(1) Does anybody have experience and know whether (I will also accept

conjecture) a SW South Wind heater can operate with the very low fuel

pressure that is gravity-developed from an operating Stewart Warner

vacuum tank? I tend to think that it won't but there is "something

about vacuum" to do with the SW heater...perhaps this

literally "sucks" the fuel into the firebox.



(2) Does anyone know of a suitably generic heater box that I can buy

to install on my car? If you have one for sale, you might want to

post it on e bay and throw it up for grabs....I will bet that there

are several of us with pre-frostbite.



Thanks in advance for your advice and kibitzing.



Tom