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Originally Posted by xb-60
2310? Mr. Case's car?
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"Mr. Case", just Dan will do. Yes, that antenna surrounded by black paint is in CSX2310.
Like most Cobra subjects radios and antenna in Cobras is a complicated subject.
Very early installations did not include COBRA lettering in the face glass I am told. I am not surprised by that as even sun visors and wind wings didn’t have COBRA lettering either most of the way through the first 100 cars if such parts were ordered.
Buyer beware; a Cobra owner had some unknown quantity of “COBRA” lettered replacement glasses made decades ago and distributed them. Some of the “COBRA” lettered units you see today MIGHT have been created by glass swaps.
Stock radios in a Cobra are not such a neat option in my opinion. The only speaker is a small one inside the radio chassis case and it points straight down to the transmission tunnel. In CSX2310 to hear it well enough to bother with the engine has to be off. That assumes I am close enough to an AM radio station that can stand to listen to.
The radio chassis is located in a terrible place for its own good as it lies directly under the heater unit. Any leakage of coolant from the heater drops directly on the top of the radio. The radio case is not a design intended to be in a wet location. Most cars that originally had radios lost them over time. I suspect leaking coolant probably claimed some of them. When we bought CSX2310 in 1983 it was plain to see that a small amount of coolant had reached the radio but not enough to get inside at some time in the past. Since 1983 I have used a piece of black plastic sheet to cover the top of the radio as a little protection just in case.
427 Cobras and radios? Different subject I have not studied in depth.
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