TR2/3/3A TR3 Antenna

[GBRandy]

OK...just a quick...and possibly silly...question.

I have seen several TR3's for sale that have an antenna on the right side front fender. Is that stock? Or was that added later in life by the owner?

 

[martx-5]

I don't know for sure, but I think all of the radios for the TR3 were added at the dealer level. My TR3 had the hole for the antenna on the right side cowl just below when the windscreen attaches. I welded it shut when I did the body work.

 

[Adrio]

mine also had the hole there. I was too chicken 30 years ago to weld it shut so I put a rubber bung in there and have regretted not welding it shut ever since. Given the time frame and my 18 year age maybe I was thinking of some booming stereo blasting the latest tunes (I won't admit to what I was listening to then)

 

[M_Pied_Lourd]

GBR,

My Heritage Certificate says that my 60 came with a Radio as a factory installed item. Unfortunately, it is not in the car now, but I do have an antennae on the front passenger side wing.

Cheers,
M. Pied Lourd

 

[TR3driver]

My understanding is that Triumphs shipped to the US had the radios installed by dealers. There were instructions supplied, but there was considerable variation in how closely those instructions were followed.

Of course it could also have been added later. The TR3 I'm working on now has a hole in the RH scuttle for a radio antenna, but I'm planning to have it welded up.

 

[Don Elliott]

My 1958 TR3A came new with a hole for an antenna in the top curve of the RHS front fender just down below the stanchion. Since I had not ordered a radio, this hole was closed by a metal plug. It's not steel, but is grey, somewhat like white-metal. The hole had this plug-like disk with a nut and washer on a threaded stud to secure it into the hole. It has a slight arch to the top. It also has a step on the bottom face to keep it central in the hole in the fender. I still have it on my car.

 

[Moseso]

Mine came to me in 1984 with the remains of an antenna installed in the right fender, and no other indication that a radio had ever been anywhere near the car. I replaced the antenna with one of those totally collapsible ones that are common on ebay. Way cheaper than welding/painting the hole -- looks good -- and, what the heck, maybe I'll put a radio in it some day. I'm half way there; the antenna is in and the lead is wired up out of the way in the cockpit.

 

[Geo Hahn]

I too had the antenna in the RF wing. When I stripped the paint I found a second hole in the RH scuttle. Closed the scuttle hole properly and kept the wing hole as that allowed an antenna that retracts fully.

 

[GBRandy]

Excellent thanks all.....still looking for a car to go with the antenna I bought