Turn power antenna into manual antenna?, is it possible? Options

[A_N_T_H_O_N_Y]

My power antenna on my car is broken, it was like that when I bought it. Right now, it is stuck in the fully extended position, but I still get good reception. It hate how it looks all the way up, especially since I rarely listen to radio. I have tried forcing it down, with no luck. My question is, is there any way that I could take out the mast or whatever from the inside, so that when I'm not listening to the radio, the antenna can be down, and on the rare occasion that I do need to listen to the radio, I can get out of my car and manually extend the antenna? What do you guys think?

[SinisterSinner]

just take the antena out and fill the hole, paint it, and get a shark fin antena they look sick! without being this long old fashion antena like we have. that way you will never have to extend it and also you will always get good reception

[captb]

just take the antena out and fill the hole, paint it, and get a shark fin antena they look sick! without being this long old fashion antena like we have. that way you will never have to extend it and also you will always get good reception

have you seen any 6gc's with shark tales, i am really considering going this route but not sure if it will flow. So if you know who they are or can find pics, Pls Pls let me know.


as for your problem, id agree with galcobar, there are three wires that run the antenna (ground, power, remote/acc), if the PO didnt know what he was doing then it is quite possible he didnt know what to do with the third wire and hooked it up incorrectly.