I just heard from another member that it was a "dealer air" car, but the wrong (driver's side) radiator hose makes me wonder what the compressor setup was back then. No room for a 2V with that hose on the driver's side, and I doubt there were tidy Sanden units back then. Anybody know what dealer installed system looked like, like say on a regular Fury or Polara or Newport?
As for the "way too high survival rate" argument, I can't statistically accept that 17 additional cars would appreciably skew the survival rate. My reasoning is that the H cars that didn't rust away by around 1979 (by then my parent's 71 Fury Grand Coupe had already become Swiss cheese rusty, fading paint, peeling top, cracked dash) were put away due to high gas prices, high original cost, AND because of their appearance. And probably because of low miles on most of the survivors, because that's why they survived in the first place--they weren't daily drivers. And the former owner of my car believed that there were only about 50 roadworthy cars by 2016. So that's HIS statistics!
Anyway, very interesting discussion.