Radio delete question
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09/30/15 01:58 PM
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I'm trying to find out when ( year ) Chrysler went from a blank fender top ( no hole ) to a fender with the hole and chrome plug ..
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Re: Radio delete question
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09/30/15 04:27 PM
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I have an early 68 GTS with radio delete with a chrome plug in the passenger fender. An old Chrysler mechanic told me that if a car needed a radio the front fender had to be drilled out at his dealership. I am confused about this for you would believe that the great majority of new cars would come with an am radio and it would be easier on the assembly line to have all the right front fenders pre-drilled for an antennae.
Last edited by blackdart; 09/30/15 04:29 PM.
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Re: Radio delete question
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09/30/15 10:08 PM
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My 68 Barracuda notch does not have the hole.
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Re: Radio delete question
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09/30/15 11:11 PM
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I THINK I remember it being '73. That is when they went to the raised mounting area with a flat base, IIRC.
The antennae came in a box (in the trunk usually), an installation kit with a template for where to drill the hole.
Some of our customers in rural Vermont would have us put the antenna on the left, so that low branches on our dirt roads wouldn't bend/break them off.
The short one piece masts pretty much ended that problem anyhoo.
If a fender doesn't have the raised mounting position and has a plug of some sort in the hole it is because it at one time DID have an antenna or at least the prep guys messed up and drilled without looking inside.
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Re: Radio delete question
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10/02/15 04:26 PM
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OzHemi
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That is a good question as I have had a 67 Dart radio delete that had no hole in the fender and a 69 Dart with radio delete with a plastic plug that looked like a power antenna that was in the fender?!? I had a '68 Dart no radio car and there was no hole in the fender. Parted out a couple Aussie cars too that were both radio and heater delete and no fender hole in them either..
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Re: Radio delete question
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10/03/15 01:17 AM
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My 71 Duster 340 was ordered without a radio. I am convinced one was added by the dealer who used an aftermarket (TRW) brand antenna. The hole cut in the fender was a crude circular cut and not like the factory where it is a stamped out hole. So no hole in the original fender. My opinion on the TRW brand antenna used by dealerships is because I have seen so many radio delete cars with that same antenna!
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Re: Radio delete question
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10/03/15 01:52 AM
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