side mount antenna

Kdancy
Kdancy Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
Looking for a side mount antenna for the 37 Terraplane PU. Does anyone repro this type?

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  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    You may already know this, but the original-type antenna was a cable stretched back and forth between brackets mounted underneath the runningboards. Actually, I have a side-mount antenna on mine simply because I couldn't get the runningboard antenna to give me much reception, but in the end that may have been my radio's fault. Apparently they worked (after a fashion) back in '37!

    Anyway, there is no repro because there was no "factory" side mount antenna to pattern it after.
  • Rocket
    Rocket Senior Contributor
    If you want to pm me with your contact imfo I know someone who can make you one for under your running board he used mine as a coppy for a car he was doing.
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    No! I didn't know that about the factory antenna--
    Always something new to learn. This cab has the holes for a side mount antenna that was installed. The other cab I have has the same side mount holes in it as well.
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    Kdancy wrote:
    No! I didn't know that about the factory antenna--
    Always something new to learn. This cab has the holes for a side mount antenna that was installed. The other cab I have has the same side mount holes in it as well.

    Seems to me I read, probably a bulletin issued sometime in the 1930's, where you could order a vehicle with a side mount antenna - to be installed by the dealer.

    Might be something in the service magazines in the online library -

    http://hetclub.org/burr/lithomepage.htm - 1930-1939 Service Merchandiser section.

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • lostmind
    lostmind Expert Adviser
    I also had a side mount antennea on my 37 coupe. I got it that way , factory radio accessory. No indication of ever having a running board antennea.
    My antennea had a red ball on top that matched the hood ornament.
    I always assumed it was a Hudson Accessory.
    Roy
  • SuperDave
    SuperDave Senior Contributor
    I was told that the running board antennas were designed to help eliminate static generated by the overhead streetcar electric wires in the cities. Sure makes sense.
  • Kdancy
    Kdancy Senior Contributor
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280782007954&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en
    Here is a repro side mount one ---
  • PAULARGETYPE
    PAULARGETYPE Senior Contributor
    edited December 2011
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    HUDSONLY
    PAULARGETYPE
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