Gilmore Enterprises has a Long history of ownership by people who genuinely love aircooled VW's.  It's owned by Alejandro Rodriguez, a long time lover of volksies, and he has owned a VW repair shop for many years in South Florida.

Gilmore History:

Gimore Enterprises was founded for one reason--  to give people the opportunity to not only have a motor that was air-cooled, but to be "air-cooled" inside an old air-cooled VW with a high quality air conditioning unit. 

Gilmore was originally founded by Ed Muha in 1996, who founded, owned and ran the business for almost 2 decades.  Back in that day, he was advertising in Aircooled VW magazines, and so very many purchased his high quality air conditioning units to cool the inside of their cars. When Ed wanted to retire, it was then purchased by Frank Buoncito, who owned and ran the business for another 7 years or so, along with Ed who in retirement continued to help him in the shop as well.  When it came time for Frank to retire, Frank sold the business to Sean Wright, who was Gilmore's youngest owner.  He grew up in SoCal, and absolutely loved vw's, loved running the business, and keeping up the tradition Ed and Frank had established providing fantastic AC units for old vw's. He and Cristina ran the business until 2025, when unfortunately he passed untimely in 2025.  

Gilmore has done what even Volkswagen themselves never did-- they created air conditioners for your old Volksie that actually work. Using modern technology and Good-American-Know-How, Gilmore Enterprises has created under-dash (and integrated units for the 73-79 Super Bug) units that look downright similar to the ones VW used to offer, but actually keep you cool.  

They don't make your motor hot, and they keep you cool in the worst of heat.   

Gilmore swears that these units will keep an old Beetle with a 1200 motor cool enough on the inside of the car that you won't even break a sweat, and the motor just hums along like it normally would.

If you have questions, Call Alejandro.  He'll take the time you need to get your questions answered so you can stay cool too.  And if you happen to be at one of the local VW shows, look for the Gilmore guys.  You'll see them around!