Factory installed antenna - exceptions?

[HBChris]

My 69 sold in Alhambra had one, I love the style and having something different, I just bought one, just in case.

[Steve Tochi]

Thanks, I just ordered a Harada replacement, the economic life had long since passed.  I don't know what its called, but notice the "anti-theft" screw holding down my base, did your replacement come with the same one?

[JohnS]

I took the lazy way out and undid the single screw and had an insta-NEW antenna today.  Will replace the base with the cable and the top mount at a later time.  So stoked on finding these...  

 

  

 

[JohnS]

11 hours ago, Steve Tochi said:

Thanks, I just ordered a Harada replacement, the economic life had long since passed.  I don't know what its called, but notice the "anti-theft" screw holding down my base, did your replacement come with the same one?

 

No security screw on mine, the replacement came with a new stainless phillips head screw.

[Steve Tochi]

1 hour ago, JohnS said:

 

No security screw on mine, the replacement came with a new stainless phillips head screw.

Thanks for the info John, great find. I don't even have a radio, and was lamenting over the cost of a replacement. My car is a California car too, so maybe we've found another identifier for west coast cars.  I'll just install with the phillips over the security screw, doubt there's any market for a stolen $20 antenna. Anyone old enough to remember the CB radio days, where you'd take off your antenna, so no one would steal it, usually mounted to your bumper or smack dab in the middle of your trunk lid.

[dlhoovler]

Don't anyone get jealous, but I suspect that the original antenna on the Orange Car is a Harada PM-13, AND it originally came with an Audiovox radio! Not as fancy as the one Delia posted, though - no woodgrain or little switches above the pushbuttons. Both were installed by Universal Motor Sales, Butler, PA.

 

I took the radio out a few years ago, though, when the tuner clutch started slipping. I still want to fix that someday. Its replacement is a Kraco stereo with weatherband! High-class, that; I probably should have put it in with security screws...

 

-Dave

 

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[HBChris]

Send your Audiovox to these guys, they have repaired two Blaupunkts for me.

 

http://www.radiomanrepair.com/

[dlhoovler]

Send your Audiovox to these guys, they have repaired two Blaupunkts for me.
 
http://www.radiomanrepair.com/

Thanks, but "specialized in high end car audio radio repairs"? I don't think the Audiovox is quite in that league. I've heard it was a JC Whitney special when the car was new.

I opened up the radio a year or so ago, and I think I can fix it myself with a chunk of bike inner tube; should be a nice winter evening project. It's an ingenious little mechanism, considering the cheapness of the radio.

-Dave

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[Conserv]

13 hours ago, dlhoovler said:

Thanks, but "specialized in high end car audio radio repairs"? I don't think the Audiovox is quite in that league. I've heard it was a JC Whitney special when the car was new.
 

 

I don’t know, Dave. I viewed Audiovox as halfway between J.C. Whitney and Blaupunkt: they cost less than a Blaupunkt — meaning lots less than a Becker — but they did, indeed, work!

 

Beckers, on the other hand, were known to require “regular” service. And they continue to deliver on that promise: my ‘76’s Becker Grand Prix Stereo, fully serviced by Becker Autoradio just over a year ago, has lost its search tuning capability...again.  But the radio, with its separate factory amp, weighs so much, it’s just gotta be good... ? Becker’s were the Panzer tanks of the car stereo world... ?

 

After my ‘76’s original Becker Europa II Stereo was stolen, I went to Japanese-manufactured Blaupunkt CR-4096 AM/FM Cassette stereos (two or three: I cannot recall how many were stolen!). They were $200 at a time when the closest German-manufactured equivalent was the Becker Mexico Stereo (with built-in cassette player). But the Mexico Stereo was over $600 at the time.

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

Edited November 23, 2018 by Conserv

[JohnS]

The thing I like about these Harada PM-13 antennas is that they're made out of metal. 

 

They're straight outta Compton .... but made in Taiwan ?

Edited November 23, 2018 by JohnS