Radio antenna kit [E0TZ-18813-A] - NOS

[1986F150Six]

Gary, look at the included instructions as they show proper placement of the antenna, if being added. This might be useful for someone.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/80-81-82-83-84-85-86-Ford-Bronco-F-150-F-250-F-350-NOS-OEM-Radio-Antenna-Kit/124065190017?hash=item1ce2dc9081:g:eewAAOSwzYteMeBZ

[Gary Lewis]

Interesting!

I've inserted them here so they are captured, then saved them to OneDrive/Ford Trucks/Website/Electrical/Radios as Antenna Layout Instructions 1 and 2.  And, I've added a note in the Forum & Website Upgrades spreadsheet to add them to a page.

Thanks!

[salans7]

Could there really be somebody out there willing to pay $100 for an antenna assembly? Geez.

[Frank Wyatt]

Apparently so.

[Rembrant]

salans7 wrote

Could there really be somebody out there willing to pay $100 for an antenna assembly? Geez.

There are a lot of things in this world that I will easily blow $100 bucks on, but one of those antennas wouldn't be one of them.

For the longest time I was going to install one of the Bricknose cowl panels to get the smaller perforated holes, since I was having the truck painted anyway. That plan ended abruptly one day at the junkyard when I realized that I was probably never going to find one without and antenna hole. Since my '84 is a radio delete truck, it never did have an antenna (or a hole for one) and I had no intention of ever putting an antenna in it. I think by the time the Bricknose arrived, in the odd chance somebody bought a radio delete model, it still had the antenna hole, but with a plug in it? Would have been a keen engineering /production upgrade since the Bullnose required two different cowl panels (actually, three I believe when you factor in the one that had the shorter/fewer slots).