An old fashioned  glass-mount cell-phone antenna mounted at the top
center of the windshield makes a very good
"roof alarm"

Todd
'88 Westy

Stones wrote:

> At 09:59 PM 3/12/02 -0900, you wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that many new cars now use a short, flexible antenna
>> mounted on the roof.  It occurs to me that on of these would be good on
>> a Vanagon, especially a Westy, where it could be completely concealed
>> under the side of the luggage rack.  Then, the fragile original antenna
>> could be left safely down.  Any thoughts?
>
>
> If you extend your antenna 3/4" above the highest point of your roof, it
> makes an good indicator of which pipes you're not going to make it
> under in
> a parking garage... However I don't know if the stock antenna will extend
> far enough to outreach a westy top.
>