Miata Mailing List: June 1993, Message #15
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   From: (none)
Subject: Re: Car Cover (IMHO)
   Date: (none)

Thomas Tkacik says:
     
     I have a question to those who use car covers frequently.  Do you always
     remove the antenna before putting on the car cover, do you have a power
     antenna that is down, or do you simply throw the car cover over
     the antenna?
     
     Removing the antenna seems a pain.
     Buying a power antenna seems costly.
     Throwing the car cover on the antenna seems a good way to ruin it.
     
The cheapie I bought has a reinforcement patch to glue to the cover once you
cut a hole for the antenna. My first cover eventually ripped there; my second
one won't because I remove the antenna. Panama City doesn't have much in the
way of good music stations, so I listen to my CDs through a CD-cassette 
adapter and leave the antenna off most of the time.

When I do, it only takes about 5sec to unscrew the antenna, but then I don't
have the stock one, I've got what's called (around here, anyway) a rubber
duckie (ducky? duckey??), about 10in long black rubber antenna.     

-- 
Jim (moore@email.ncsc.navy.mil)

I do not undersand what I do.
For what I want to do I do not do,
but what I hate I do.