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Price: $49.95
Purchasea manual replacement antenna for your Volkswagen Beetle/Ghia/Type 3,Porsche 356 orMercedes-Benz 190SL or 300SL with a red plastic tip!
- This is a "Buy it now"listing so no need to wait 7 days only to be outbid in the finalseconds.
- This antenna looks like the original "Red Tip" Hirschmannantenna
- Please note: We are offering this antenna as an option tothe rare and costly original NLA red tip Hirschmann.
- This is a perfectreplacement antenna for anyone interested in an original lookingantenna without spending lots of money.
- NOS Hirschmann red tip antennas sellfor over $500 if you can find one.
- We are not representing this antennaas an exact replica although it does look very close to the original.Lots of our customers tell us it is a very good replica
- This is a chrome antenna (actually stainless steel) with a red plastic tip and it is not motorized.
- It closes flush with the top of the fender mount.
- This antenna includes installation instructions.
- A 30 mm 1 1/8inch round hole needed if not already existing for installation from above the fender.
- If you can install from under the fender only a 20mm hole is needed.
- The retractable mast is 78 cm/31 inches tall w/five sections, the antenna storage tube requires 24.5 cm/9 3/4 inches deep below the fender, and the cable is 140 cm/52 inches long.
- The base rubber gasket is 34mm-1.4 inches allowing a mounting footprint of up to 34mm (to hide the hole in the fender).
- It can accept a fender slope of up to 35 degrees.
- A support bracket is also included but this is not needed for Porsche 356 installations, it may be used for some Mercedes installs.
- This is a brand new antenna.
- This antenna is the same style as the original antenna installed by Porsche, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz dealers on their cars of the 50's and 60's.
- The antenna includes new coax cable with the correct new Motorola plug for the rear of the radio to ensure a good connection.
- I have installed these for many 356 and 190/300SL customers with complete customer satisfaction.
- I am a PCA and 356 Club and Registry member, and a past 190SL Group member offering a quality product at a fair price to other Porsche, Volkswagen and Mercedes owners.
- This antenna is not being offered anywhere else.
- Shipping is less then other vendors are charging, just our cost, no markup, and with Priority Mail, it should be in your mailbox in 2-3 days.
- Please see our other auction for genuine Hirschmann key lock replacement antenna and a modern 200 watt AM/FM radio with ipod inputs that looks like a period correct radio without cutting your dash!