I believe Lancias of the '50s came from the factory with thermostatically controlled louvers like that.
(And so does my Porsche 928, actually, but for the purpose of improving aerodynamics when full airflow over the radiator isn't required, and they're electrically actuated.) Joe Elliott (Alfaless but now living in Tess's neck of the woods, incidentally) > Date:Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:04:02 -0400 (EDT) > From:[email protected] > Subject: Re: [alfa] ancient history > > I recently made an interesting find in my barn. It is a "Winterfront" made > by Pine Manufacturing Co. This mounted over the front of a flat front > radiator typical in the early 1930's. I don't know if it is model specific. In > any case, it has a row of louvers which are thermostatically opened by a > thermostat as the engine warms up. It must have been a popular item, I Googled > it and came up with a picture of a rather large factory. The text notes > that they lost popularity after alcohol was replaced by "permanent > antifreeze". > > Tom Faust -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
