model car antennas

[sentsat71]

Am I the only who has seen model cars back in the day (late '50's into early '60's) that builders used sewing needles for the antennas?

The 1 or 2 builds I remember were most likely built by my oldest brother, as he had built a few back them. His were place on top of the rear fenders and angled back somewhere between 90 & 45 degrees. I know when I saw them and tried to pick them up, if I wasn't careful, would end up sticking myself.

On a MPC Jeep that I bought around 1968-69(?) I installed one on the cowl. (These was the Jeep kit that had an option to build a swamp buggy version, that I've never seen since then, they are mostly reissued as the Hogan's Hero's Jeep......
And no, this build did not survive one of my early purges.... 

[Olderndirt]

I have a brother that has more guitars than most people have clean shirts. He restrings them regularly, and I get the old strings. Talk about good material for antennas. Whip antennas for CB radios, and police, and fire, vehicles come out looking good, and in scale for a change. I even made a set of curb feelers and frenched antennas for a lowered Hudson Hornet convertible, with two tone paint, and even baby booties hanging from the rear view mirror. I use the little shirt pins for column shift levers, and file the top flat, to make the knob part of a broadly knob.

  Olderndirt

[pdaly28]

Am I the only who has seen model cars back in the day (late '50's into early '60's) that builders used sewing needles for the antennas?

The 1 or 2 builds I remember were most likely built by my oldest brother, as he had built a few back them. His were place on top of the rear fenders and angled back somewhere between 90 & 45 degrees. I know when I saw them and tried to pick them up, if I wasn't careful, would end up sticking myself.

On a MPC Jeep that I bought around 1968-69(?) I installed one on the cowl. (These was the Jeep kit that had an option to build a swamp buggy version, that I've never seen since then, they are mostly reissued as the Hogan's Hero's Jeep......
And no, this build did not survive one of my early purges.... 

twins on 60's builds and frenched in ones too on customs!