What kind of mast did your radio antenna come with stock? Telescoping or whip?

Mine came with a solid whip, but I am having a devil of a time locating an OEM replacement for the unit. They are either a Universal-mount model that does not BOLT to the fender as the original did, OR, a telescoping model (weak, and prone to breakage by Crack addicts who need a crack pipe).

Where do you get such an animal?

 

Mine had the telescoping type - which a pheasant took care of for me. I prefered the thin flexible mast of the '80+ trucks so I put one of those on. The base was different (the mounting point was identical and fit great) but the mast mount and wire end was different. So I got the mast, base and wire from a '85 and it fit right on and looks great. Best of all, it's flexable and not broken...

Marty

 

Maybe The mount for the antennas changed in 1978. Finding a replacement for a 78-79 is easy as pie, so I finally got the mount from a 79 and put it in my 77.

 

I bought a replacement antenna for my 79 F100 at Auto Zone. It looks just like the original antenna.

 

go to kragen.com i just got a oem type with all original fender hardware in satin black with a flexible rubber mast for 11.99 plus tax it took about 20 mins to install you need to feed the cable into the cab remove the glove box feed it around the defrost tube and to the back of the radio

 

mine has the one with the big spring on the bottom the antenna is whip like but very flexible with the big ol srping at the bottom

 

I would've rather just bought a replacement. But the stock antenna on my '73 did not seperate from the base. So I had to replace the base too. Now that I have a '85 base, I can just replace the mast - if there's a next time...

Marty