Help with broken radio antenna!

Posted by Muir On 2013/5/3 21:45:40

Hi everybody,
Hoping for some advice here - I've got a little bit of an issue: my '56 Patrician has the twin aerial antenna masts on the rear guards and one of them has inevitably broken at the base. As they both work fine mechanically, I'm seriously keen on fixing them schmakeroo'ed one.
Now, of course, 5 foot long antenna just doesn't happen down at supercheap auto's - I tried robbing the bits out of my brothers '53 Cavalier but they're too different for adaption.
Are there replacement masts available or something similar? Have to admit theres budget constraints and forking out a few hundred on a complete aerial IF I can find one isn't really part of the plan.
I kind of like the idea of keeping the twin antenna's (antennae?)... probably raise 'em and hang a hammock between them....
Any ideas always welcome :)

Just to add something different about my car too: Have two levelizer's, one of which has been snapped off at the base and the splines twisted, the other with just the splines twisted. Have two switches, and the receipts say the first replacement switch was done in '57. Thats a 100% severe failure rate where the levelizer hasn't switched off and it's just carried on motorising until it's done more twisting then Chubby Checker. Can't help but think that if you "asked the man who owns one" at the time it possibly didn't do the system much good in it's reputation (although I'm sold on it).

Thanks everybody
Muir