[Walt Fricke]

My '77 (no footwell blowers) was my ski car for about seven years, as well as my drive to work car. I never felt it lacked adequate, or reasonably quick to warm up, heat. Drove it from Boulder to Minnesota and back in the winter once. Nasty blizzard on way back. Had to crack open a window off and on while driving to keep heat balanced (if I were smarter, I would have realized I could use the dash fresh air controls to do the same thing, and more evenly). It didn't have the often misbehaving Tempostat - just hand levers.

Don't recall our '84 with those blowers being better, although it wasn't purposely used in bad weather. Plus it had the blowers with no fuse, which led to electrical fires - or at least smoke and fumes - when the fans seized against the housings.

So I'd say you will be able to get by quite reasonably.