Originally Posted by
Dougal
The first RRC we got with AC was the four door vogue (I think these were badged Highline in Aus) in 1985. So that's all the 2 doors and the four doors to about 1984 which never had AC. I'm sure some are floating around with aftermarket AC but I've never personally seen one.
My 85 (BA chassis) was one of the first Vogues and has AC integrated into the dash as factory fit.
Then it's the (poverty pack) UK imports. Pretty much none of the UK imported classics have AC or leather seats or tinted windows or anything that cost extra. I wrecked an 88 UK import years ago which was the same spec as that one. Manual, cloth seats and no AC. A mate here has (among others) a UK import like that one, but he paid about 10% of that asking price.
Some of the UK imports are shockers for rust. Salted roads gets up between the alloy panels and steel footwells. But others were imported early in life and stayed relatively corrosion free.
Some people here even remove AC from vehicles. Bugger that. But I live in the part of NZ that gets the hottest (and coldest) temps.