When I restored my car I moved the antenna to the trunk, like a US power antenna car, but it's not a power antenna car.
Then I got to thinking, "I've never owned a Canadian power antenna car". Nor have I ever seen one. So was power antenna even an option on the 69-70 Canadian cars?
In my option info on my website I show U73 "Rear Antenna", but power antenna is U75 in the US. So maybe there never was a power antenna and accompanying rocker switch available in Canada at all?
-- Edited by davepl on Tuesday 15th of November 2016 04:12:23 PM
I know of a 68 Strato Chief that was ordered with a U73 rear antenna but GM built it with a U75 power rear antenna, plus a 68 Canadian-built Impala SS427 that came from the factory with a power rear antenna.
It is reasonable to expect that a power rear antenna was still available on the B-body cars for 1969; however the brochure and the 1969 Preliminary New Product Information manual doesn't mention it one way or the other. One thing that is mentioned is a changed antenna lead-in switching from a male to a female connector. Also the 1969 American Pontiac Grand Prix was the first GM car to get the hidden windshield antenna; for 1970 all factory radios included windshield antennas for GM passenger cars (I highly doubt the power rear antenna made it to 1970).
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My 69 2+2 has a rear manual antenna, in the US 69 was the last year for power antennas (they did come back in the late 70's after years of complaints of lousy reception with the windshield antennas). 69 was unique for the firebird in that the optional rear manual antenna option of 67-68 was replaced with a rear power antenna option for 69 (you never had the choice of either, 67-68 manual only, 69 power only). The US power antennas on the big cars were different looking than the chevy style power antennas used on Canadian Pontiacs, they were also mounted closer to vertical than the quite angled US ones.
John, on a US car, how would you spec a rear manual antenna on a B-Body?
U63 is base radio and manual antenna, but I presume that's up front. I see variants that add electric antenna, but not move it to the rear. How would you order a rear-mount, non-powered antenna?
On US cars (apart from the exception for the 67-68) firebird I mentioned above there was never a rear manual antenna or a front power antenna. Canadian cars were using chevy options.
Then when I invented the rear manual antenna for my "little piece of the best of everything" 2+2 I guess correctly for "Canadian 2+2 with manual rear antenna" and just got lucky!
