Vintage Air or ClassicAuto Air ?

'71 Charger w/o factory AC. Please share your experiences & opinions on which to go with. Thanks.

Are you looking for an under-dash or in-dash system?

I used classic on a 1965 coronet. I felt the company at the time (3 years ago) was more mopar centric.
Even so, I wound up using a genaric kit because of the poly 318, and they had nothing for early b's.

Fairly straight forward, and I had a pulley issue that they took care of right away.

I did not use the factory controls, chose the electronic air box instead.

I installed it in a convertible, so I probably wouldn't waste my money or time again on it.
But not because it doesn't work. If I keep the top up, it works fine, heat and a/c. Just does nothing for me with the top down.

In-dash is preferable. I have the car on a rotisserie so now's the time to do any fab work required to fit an in-dash.

Perhaps the following will be useful if you haven't already done a recent search on the topic.

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...rue#Post5644259

Thank you for posting that, I should have done a search first.

the electric box instead of vacuum operated is much cleaner. but a couple hundred more.

I installed a classic air unit in my Non A/C 68 charger. Very clean install and you use the stock controls. You get a brand new air box with heater core and A/C evaporater. Very helpful tech line.
Won't know how well it works till this summer.

I've had good luck with classic and horrible luck with vintage. Vintage quality stinks and their tech line refused to stand behind their product.

I installed a stock factory system in my non AC 72 Charger. The donor car was a 73 Charger. I welded up a few holes, then made a template for the new system and cut a few new holes in the firewall. System has been running great with R134A for years now.