I have one or two power antennas left over from my Riviera days and was wondering if anyone has ever installed one on a 67 Skylark/GS400? I have not looked to see if there is room between fender and inner fender but tired of the antenna on the Sportwagon always fixed in place and no way to have the car in a normal carwash. Did that once with GS400 HdTp and it snapped right off! Thoughts. comments?
Well Chuck, the only comment I have is, do your cars a favor and stay far away from those automatic car washes. I'm cringing just thinking about that beautiful black Sportwagon going thru one of those places. That antenna snapping off was a way of your car showing it's discontent of being there.
I hear you and my bigger frustration is my car covers never having the antenna hole in the right place!
I always remove my antenna mast when I cover my car. It's only screwed in hand tight. It's a way of preventing any mishaps.
Guys, are you unscrewing the black plastic aerial nut every time you take the aerial off? I have AM/FM antennas on my Convertible and Sportwagon with the extented aerial nut and those are not easy to take off. They screw down real tight and the antenna makes contact with the wire to the radio. The AM antennas do screw in and out easier I think. My concern is screwing the aerial nut on and off every time you want to put a car cover on will result in the threads in the nut wearing out or cracking like mine have as shown below. I have purchased 3/4" diameter brass grommets that I am going to try on two new car covers I recently bought and see if they work for the aerials over time without tearing out. Difference in aerial nuts below, the three are AM and one is AM/FM
I figure all the more mine gets covered and uncovered It’ll take a long time to wear out, and I have Extra NOS ones as back up
Well I will try the grommets and let you know. Not real confident they are going to work, I have to make a tool to close the back to the front through the material, Probably a piece of proper sized galvanized pipe and a small sledge hammer for one good wack.
My 2 cents -- I would rather screw up a $200 car cover over a unobtainable mast They sell a cheap grommet cutter kit but like you say hard to get perfect. I like the pwr antenna modification if you can make it work.
Even with a hole and a grommet you have to be careful, my cover has a hole in it for the antenna and one time the cover slid off when I walked around the ither side and slid off the car and snapped the mast right off
Stick the power antena in the right rear quarter panal. GM had them there on many models, Cadillac as a big one for them and I bet GM has thre extention leads in parts. Al
