Removing Antenna

[Backfire]

I removed the antenna from my car today. There was a crease developing from one of the metal "feet" underneath that seemed to be getting worse. The original mark was there before I bought the car, and was probably due to taking the car through a wash with the antenna on. I never did understand why they put sharp/pointy metal feet against our thin sheet metal body. Anyway, now that it is removed, I was thinking about just having the hole filled and painted over . Removing it cleaned up the look of that side quite a bit. I was considering having the small crease repaired/painted before reinstalling the antenna, but maybe I will just leave it off. The radio reception was just as good without it, and I hardly listen to it anyway.

Any estimates on the cost for something like that? It's only about 1.5" diameter I would guess. There are a couple of small dings that I may get pushed out at the same time, just take care of it all at once. Maybe I could do the filling work and then have it painted to save some cash? Has anyone else had this done?

[97camRS]

Never done it but I am too thinking about doing this now that you mention it. I only listen to my CD's anyways. Got any new updates on this?

[JVT007]

yeah I don't like it there either and I don't want to buy the 100 dollar automatic assembly. Any ideas to take it off or just put it inside the car and cover the hole with the antenna itself?

Anyone?

[Backfire]

Well, my current temp fix is a fake power antenna(is that rice? [img]tongue.gif[/img] ). After I unhooked the antenna lead from the antenna itself, the reception wasn't bad. So I went out and bought a 1/4" bolt and washer. I painted them both black. I used a firm foam block underneath to conform to the body, put the bolt though the block, and put an additional washer and nut on the end. I kept the original antenna base.

It doesn't completely clean up the side, but its good enough for now until I can find some estimates. If you don't know these cars you would never notice the bolt and washer. And even if you do, it looks good. I will try to get a picture of it to show it.

[Backfire]

Here are a couple of pictures of the fake antenna.

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[97BIRD]

i got a nice antenna from www.billetspecialties.com. it looks alot better than the stock one. i don't know if they will fit a camaro though. [img]graemlins/dunce.gif[/img]

[Fish]

I looked at the Billet site, but only saw manual antennas. I've haven't seen anything posted about the RKSports power antenna - you can get chrome or Black (Yea!) and it looks like it comes complete with the wiring harness. Maybe a little pricey, but like someone else, I didn't want to cut a hole in my cover and I fabricated a cork to go over the mounting screw when I take the antenna off, but I'd like to see the thing gone and I'd really like to have a black power antenna. Anyone have any experience with the RKSports model?