This whole time I thought the corosion was causing the problem, but it was a partially stripped gear. I am now in need of a nice condition gear for an oem antenna. If anyone has one to spare, please contact me about it. It is the white gear in the pictures attached.

Thank you,

Ben

I know it isn't original, but I was planning on just installing a "whip" style fixed antenna.

Anyone have positive or negative experiences with those on a Z car?

v12horse i have one. Let me dig it out.

That sounds awesome. Thank you so much Bill.

I'm in the middle of stereo and antenna restoration as well. Thanks for the link on the speakers and brackets. What's the story on the power leads to the antenna motor. Are both leads positive one for up and one for down? Or is one ground and the motor self-reversing after full extension?

The blue/red stripe wire is the up lead, the blue/white wire is the down lead. The antenna body is ground.

"Does anyone have the speaker bracket from Classic Datsun Motorsport? I emailed Mark about it so I should get some information soon."

So that link on the Classic Datsun Motorsport is NFG. I spoke to someone there this evening and he said that they tried the repo speaker brackets and they weren't very good. So they aren't selling them. As far as speakers this person said "just go to Radio Shack", fine. I'm not sure our local Radio Shacks even sell speakers anymore! More profit in cell phones.

Look up datsun speaker on ebay and you will get an auction for those brackets. I talked to Les (I think) and he didn't like the brackets either. If you get them, tell us what you think.

Ben

Has anyone bought one of those automatic antennas on eBay with the Buy It Now price of $29.99? Seems like too good to be true. I removed the original last night and cracked it open. Totally toast! How can so much rust and gunk get in such a small device? I thought I might be able to rescue it until I found the little motor was completely frozen.

I have not heard anything about those antenna's. I know that 280z has a newer antenna. Maybe he could chime in on what he got and how he likes it.

Ben

i bought an automatic antenna over 2 years ago on ebay from this guy:

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=boobonic&frm=1728

i paid 20 bucks plus 5 for shipping. i love it! it looks a lot like the original. he used to have a lot of them, the listing said he bought all of them up from radio shack before they stopped making them. it came in its original blue radio shack box. i dont know about those new ones for 30 bucks on ebay. they might be just as good.

Does anyone know where to get a new automatic antenna that looks very similiar to the original (excluding the one from MSA)....and it isn't on ebay?