Hi, Brian, Nick Stokes said it right: there are pros and cons to either side, and since it was Dealer's Choice, both are found on USA beetles.
In Germany, the word was always to put the antenna on the left side -- not due to "playing children" exactly, but more due to juvenile delinquents who enjoyed popping off the antennas. Note that most German antennas were cowl-mounted on the VW, not mounted on the sides. I had a Blaupunkt radio on a 1961 beetle that I watched the dealer in Mainz install. The shop had a little chassis punch -- a lot like a Greenlee punch -- that located and punched a perfect oval hole in the left cowl, right where the factory later put pre-cut holes. The Poddig antenna popped in as a perfect fit. Bert Knupp in Music City USA >Good day folks, > >Does anyone know if the radio antenna was a dealer installed item? Was there any reason >for mounting the antenna on either side? http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=572490 http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=572520 Brian _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
