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Vintage Air. Uhg. Yeah, I have a 70-72, and what a nightmare with the duct work. I also have a smoothy plate, so did some studs on the inside for the original bracket to mount to instead of screws going thru the firewall. It too was wimpy, and chose to do a strap to help support it that goes into the rain gutter/cowl.

I mounted it as high and to the right as I could, which made it a little bit of a challenge to run the lines. I have a bulkhead manifold in the original position of the fan/blower, and used the EZ-Clip fittings. Because of the tight turns and the size of the fittings, I had to do specific loops inside the cowl to ensure there were no kinks. Stupid thing.

So I was looking at options for the condenser mounting, and noticed there was a sure fit kit for the cutlass, and ended up purchasing the brackets only. Worked very good. They also have better duct fittings too, but still nothing for the defrost, which I had to fab.

Not sure what I'm going to do about the lower duct section that has the lap vents, on 70-72, it's a large piece that's is roughly 4/5ths along the lower dash. I have a lower piece from a cutlass, and they make the duct adapters for it, I may try to make something work there.

Nice work by the way!

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