{"id":438,"date":"2025-12-01T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:25:31","slug":"removal-of-the-antenna-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Removal of the radio antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019ve hated the way the radio antenna looks on this car since day one. I\u2019ve always planned on filling it in with fiberglass and doing it properly. I\u2019ve spent years trying to figure something out, I\u2019ve tried numerous things and nothing stuck. I replaced it with a power antenna, which didn\u2019t work well and was way too heavy. I tried a little black cell type antenna and it looked dumb. For the past 10 years I\u2019ve had the original, I just cut the top off. It was way too long. But then I got an idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was washing dishes and I looked at my sink and I notice a round shape sitting in the corner. It\u2019s the place where you\u2019d stick a soap dispenser or a water filter spigot. There\u2019s none of those there. Just this little, round, cover looking type of thing. The internet calls it a \u201cfaucet hole cover.” This could be it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And there you have it. Finally! I feel stupid for not thinking about this before. I swear I tried this already. Either way, it\u2019s a little too big but way better than the antenna. It cost $5. I also got to ditch the antenna cable, which is thick and cumbersome. In keeping with everything else, the old cable had numerous \u201chidden” chunks taken out of it. I could see bare wire in multiple places. So safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve hated the way the radio antenna looks on this car since day one. I\u2019ve always planned on filling it in with fiberglass and doing it properly. I\u2019ve spent years trying to figure something out, I\u2019ve tried numerous things and nothing stuck. I replaced it with a power antenna, which didn\u2019t work well and was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vette-rebuild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}