Antenna use wit fiberglass hood?

[69 GTX]

So if I remember right the AARs &TAs put the antennas in the trunk, is that nessasary with all fiberglass hoods?

 

[HT413]

Well, with b bodies they're on the passenger fender, but I'm thinking an antenna on a fiberglass hood would at least need steel reinforcement.

 

[silversedan]

I think on the cuda's and t/a's it was a styling thing, the hood doesn't have anything to do with the antenna . HT413 I don't think he meant to mount it on the hood, I'm sure you could get a radio with a A12 car and the antenna would have been in the fender like all the others.

 

[HT413]

Yeah that was kinda my point too. I've never had an antenna on a hood, so fiberglass wouldn't matter.

 

[GetX'd]

I've got the fiberglass lift off and the antenna is on the fender.

 

[vin_vl29u]

Fiberglass hoods don't shield the electrical noises that effect the radio (snap crackle pop rfi). Why old vette's had the big shield around the distributor (points are real electrically noisy). Mainly hurts AM, Fm not so much.

 

[69 GTX]

OK Thanks guys

 

[AMX364]

If you use a manual antenna the one to use with a lift off hood is the style that goes almost flush.
http://www.antennax.com/p-4734-black-oem-style-retractable-telescoping-antenna-kit.aspx
this has to do with clearance when removing the hood, nothing for radio interference.

 

[Photon440]

Fiberglass hoods don't shield the electrical noises that effect the radio (snap crackle pop rfi). Why old vette's had the big shield around the distributor (points are real electrically noisy). Mainly hurts AM, Fm not so much.

I had a factory fiberglass hood on my 1974 Firebird Formula 400, it had a layer of metal mesh like screen door material sandwiched in there for that problem.

 

[FJ6AAR]

I think they found in 69 that the fiberglass hood cause interference with the radio, so they move it to the rear in 70 on the AAR'S and T/A'S.