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Old 14th Apr 2010, 2:50 pm   #13
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Default Re: Vintage car aerial etc

I always heard bad things about those motorised aerials, even the better ones only lasted a few years. I always stuck to the simple telescopic aerials that I bought from either Halfords or other auto spares shops. These only seemed to last a few years I was always replacing my front wing mounted aerial on my Escort mk1. I remember one which would not retract fully forgetting about this I drove into a garage to use the car wash. I pushed the aerial down as far as I could put the tokens in the machine and sat there and watched as the brushes snapped the aerial clean off, this then got tangled up in the brushes and made quite an impressive sound as it banged against the bodywork of my car. At the end of the wash I had good intentions of running in to tell the garage about this but events rather overtook me. As I got out of my car the driver of a brand new BMW ignored my shouts put his tokens in the coin slot and all you could hear was this expensive rattling and clattering as the remains of my car aerial laid into the BMW's brand new shiny paintwork. I am afraid I just got back into my car and made a sharpish escape. It was quite a while before I had enough courage to use this garage again as I heard it did cause a bit of a row between the garage and the owner of the BMW. For some time after this I just relied on those aerials which would clip on to the cars guttering. Reception on my elderly Philips car radio was ok on the stronger medium wave signals but not to good for Radio 4 on long wave.
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