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Re: Antennas and car covers

To: Steve Byers <byers@cconnect.net>
Subject: Re: Antennas and car covers
From: CMLove <cmlove@hiwaay.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:33:11 -0600
Cc: macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu, mgs <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>, spridgets <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
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Reply-to: CMLove <cmlove@hiwaay.net>
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I placed a metal eyelet on the cover so that the antenna will go through
and the cover will lay flat.

Monty

Steve Byers wrote:
> 
> Larry Macy wrote:
> 
> > OK I'll bite. How, when you put a cover on the car do you handle the
> >  antenna? I have a cover for the Midget that I used for several years.
> >  Then wthis last spring when I got it runnin' again I have not used the
> >  cover 'cuz I put the antenna back in and am not sure about cutting a
> hole
> >  in the cover for it to go over the spike. Well, what would you say?
> >
> 
> My antenna is two pieces.  Where they fit together there are "teeth" on
> each piece so that the angle of the antenna can be adjusted with respect to
> the base.  The teeth are held in contact with a screw.  When I want to put
> the cover on, I loosen the screw and rotate the antenna to lie parallel to
> the windshield on the cowl.  No hole in the cover is required.
> 
> Steve Byers
> Havelock, NC USA
> '73 Midget GAN5UD126009G  "OO NINE"
> "It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool,
> than to speak, and remove all doubt."  -- Mark Twain

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