Don't know where you live but you might want A/C some day. I'm in the process of adding A/C to both of mine. Part of this is due to a long ( 14 hour) road trip I took last year with the wife...now she won't leave home without it.
My point is that I wish the PO didn't pull out and scrap everything associated with the A/C in my 351c car. He could have just cleaned up under the hood and saved the components.