Radio delete antenna hole

[Tom R.]

Would a 1966 radio delete car have an antenna hole in the body from the factory that is repaired during production or would the hole never have been cut in the first place.

[Michael H.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

Would a 1966 radio delete car have an antenna hole in the body from the factory that is repaired during production or would the hole never have been cut in the first place.

The antenna hole should only have been cut if the car has the radio option.

[Jack H.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

I don't have a '66 AIM handy but I do have both the '65 and '67 books. Both call for the hole to be drilled as part of the U69 radio option. That suggests the standard/base car that come without a factory radio had no antenna hole and the hole was only drilled/cut to serve optionally radio equipped cars.

I think it was quite a few years later (when radio became a basic component vs. an option) that the norm became to have the antenna hole with non-radio equipped cars having the hole plugged from the factory...

[Tom R.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

Thank you .....

[Tom R.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

Thank you.....

[Tom M.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

I don't have a '66 AIM handy but I do have both the '65 and '67 books. Both call for the hole to be drilled as part of the U69 radio option. That suggests the standard/base car that come without a factory radio had no antenna hole and the hole was only drilled/cut to serve optionally radio equipped cars.

I think it was quite a few years later (when radio became a basic component vs. an option) that the norm became to have the antenna hole with non-radio equipped cars having the hole plugged from the factory...

my 69 has a factory plug for radio delete

[Tom M.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

[George C.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

I don't have a '66 AIM handy but I do have both the '65 and '67 books. Both call for the hole to be drilled as part of the U69 radio option. That suggests the standard/base car that come without a factory radio had no antenna hole and the hole was only drilled/cut to serve optionally radio equipped cars.

I think it was quite a few years later (when radio became a basic component vs. an option) that the norm became to have the antenna hole with non-radio equipped cars having the hole plugged from the factory...

Ordering and selling Corvettes 73-78 at Palmyra Motors I ordered a few Corvettes back in the day with radio delete and never saw a "factory plug". Like to see a picture of a "factory plug". The Corvettes that came in without the radios also had no shielding on distributor. All Corvettes that came in without the radio had no hole on rear deck.

[Rich P.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

I have never seen a Mid year radio delete car with a pluged antenna hole. However ALL the 68-up radio delete cars I have worked on all had pluged antenna holes (Including several L-88's)

Rich

[Clem Z.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

I have never seen a Mid year radio delete car with a pluged antenna hole. However ALL the 68-up radio delete cars I have worked on all had pluged antenna holes (Including several L-88's)

Rich

my new 65 396 with radio delete had no hole because to sell it i had to install a radio kit and i had to drill the hole. so much for that rarity stuff. .

[George C.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

I have never seen a Mid year radio delete car with a pluged antenna hole. However ALL the 68-up radio delete cars I have worked on all had pluged antenna holes (Including several L-88's)

Rich

Hi Rich, Guess it's possible that the earlier C3 had the hole, but the later ones in, in 74,75 and 76 never saw a hole for the antenna. We need some pic's of members Corvette. Wish I would have taken more pic's back in the day. Save the Wave.>George

[Rich P.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

George,

I should have listed the year cars I worked on were mainly 72 and earlier so You must be correct on the later cars. I don't think I saved any pictures of these cars. Also I have not looked at all the pictures from the 300 mile Z-R1 to see if it had a pluged hole.

Rich

[Terry M.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

I was just thinking that was one of the features I forgot to look at on that car. We did have a crowd under there, so maybe someone else did note the antenna area from underneath.

[Michael H.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

Here's a shot of the underside of a "no radio" 66 deck panel. The area where an antenna would have been should look like this with no evidence of a repair/hole filled.
There are also many other clues to a real no radio C2.

[Tom M.]

Re: Radio delete antenna hole

Hi Rich, Guess it's possible that the earlier C3 had the hole, but the later ones in, in 74,75 and 76 never saw a hole for the antenna. We need some pic's of members Corvette. Wish I would have taken more pic's back in the day. Save the Wave.>George

here is a shot of my 69 L88