Radio Delete Cars

holmes said

A couple of pics of my factory radio delete plate (excuse the smear on it, the po had something stuck on it!) and my factory fender plug. If you look closely just under the dash in the radio delete plate pic you can see the sun shining on the floor showing nothing under the speaker grill.
I agree with you Rani about looking at and under the dash. A real caution flag to me!

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Glad I bumped into this Radio delete/antenna plug string which confirms my digging and research.

My '72 Swinger 340 Special came coded radio delete (but when I got it, there was a radio & antenna). So, I think Holmes has it right but here's what I found out. With the radio block-off plate for the base am radio released in the late '60's or so according to the part numbers, #277057/#2884773 – Chrysler always used a closed-off fender with it. Then, in '72, based on the antenna delete fender plug #3501331, they introduced it for 'C' bodies but fender holes were all the same size, so these plugs were used for A-bodies as well. You will still find closed-off fenders but during assembly, if a fender with a hole was placed on an A-body, but was radio delete, they could place one of these plugs into the hole. With that said, try and find one of these dash block-off plates (thanks Joel) or fender plugs, wow, hens teeth I tell ya!!! ChaChing.

Here's a few pics as I assemble my '72 Swinger 340 Special... oh, and that's a 3 speed behind my 340 - coded that way too.