Seeing a recent thread on the "radio delete" plates on the dash for cars without an optional radio reminded me to ask a question that has been bothering me.

Was the cowl/A-pillar column only drilled/punched for an antenna wire if the car was receiving a radio, or were they all drilled/punched and no-radio cars got some kind of plug?

I am running a hidden antenna because I can't bear to punch a hole in an NOS fender or NOS quarter. My car does have the hole for the antenna wire in the pillar jamb, and I have been trying to figure out how to cover it and have it look "right". Yeah, I need professional help of some sort, but... :)

I dont know the answer, but I would guess it would be similar to a car with a rear antenna?

I have rear antenna and have the hole with a rubber plug in it (similar to the plastice body plugs). This is passenger side. The hole is oblong the way it sits on the surface and the plug is too (after 40 years). I assumed this hole is antenna delete.

Lane

I forgot that the rear antenna cars wouldn't have the wire through the pillar jamb.

I have never seen it reproduced, so I am probably out of luck.

It's been a few years but I seem to remember my plug looking like the plug used in the fill hole for the convertible top pump.


TTFN
Mat

Any GM car that has an optional rear antenna would have had the plug... My 68 GTO has rear power ant and it has the hinge pillar plug...

Mine has a small metal plate attached underneath the hole and body filler over the top. Top sanded and repainted. I believe that it was dealer installed though.

I'm talking about the antenna hole in the top right fender. I think I misunderstood the question... Sorry.

I had one brand new in 1969, radio, tach, console delete. No holes in the body whatsoever. When I had a radio installed in 1969 they had to drill the fender. I did not go with a rear antenae.
It was a black standard interior and the delete plate went in the glove box with the car five years later.

Seeing a recent thread on the "radio delete" plates on the dash for cars without an optional radio reminded me to ask a question that has been bothering me.

Was the cowl/A-pillar column only drilled/punched for an antenna wire if the car was receiving a radio, or were they all drilled/punched and no-radio cars got some kind of plug?

I am running a hidden antenna because I can't bear to punch a hole in an NOS fender or NOS quarter. My car does have the hole for the antenna wire in the pillar jamb, and I have been trying to figure out how to cover it and have it look "right". Yeah, I need professional help of some sort, but... :)

All 69's had the hole for the fender antenna grommet pre-pierced (at the Fisher Body stamping plant) in the hinge pillar panel, and it got a plug if the car didn't have a radio or got a rear antenna. The hole in the fender for the antenna itself was pierced at Chevrolet per the Broadcast Copy (radio cars got the hole, no-radio cars didn't).

:beers:

As always, thank you John!

Sooner or later I will dig my old power top pump out of the shed and see if the filler plug fits the antenna wire hole. If it does I owe Mat a beer...