Shorpy RULES!!

[Dave Harris sctchbld]

Here in Arizona when we want to heat up our engine block, we just open the hood for a bit...

Yes, I get that you don't need a block heater in Arizona. Or Louisiana, or Florida. And several other places in the south.

But are block heaters so rare that it would be reasonable to assume that most people would not even know what a block heater is? You do routinely have extended periods of temperatures below freezing in the wintertime for at last half the US or so, don't you?

Smile,
Stein

Well Stein, Now that I live in "The Icebox of the Nation" --- Fraser Colorado , 9500 feet up in the Rocky mountains, I now have a block heater in my 92 Honda, just in case it gets REALLY cold. So Far it has been as low as 41 below Zero -- Farentheit , not Celsius, and I have not needed it yet. The Honda so far has fired right up , but one time after 3 days of not being started and with temps below - 30 every night , it did struggle a bit!