Radio antenna question

AND NOW yet ANOTHER annoying story from the old days

My first car, in 66 was a 57 Bel Air moredoor. It was not that nice, had evidently had a rough life. One thing it DID have, which WORKED, was an ANGLED (fancy) ELECTRIC antenna on the right rear. It ALSO had a (whatever it's called) wonderbar radio, automatic tuning.

I was PROUD of that ANTENNA!!!

One day a friend and I went down to what was called the "Topper" drive in in Coeur d Alene, which was a fixture in town for many years. After awhile, they moved it to another location and it was in THAT location for many years.

Anyhow, they had car hops, and out back of the building was a big long carport structure you could pull in under. Unknown to me, the antenna had just barely clipped under the trim of the overhang roof.

When we left, the antenna buckled and snapped in half. I was SAD!!!

On a side note, other radios I had in those years before the Navy, was a radio using 12V for the anode voltage of the (special) tubes. These were an oddball design, only used for a few years. They negated the need for a vibrator or transistor inverter to generate B+ "plate" voltage for the tubes, but they required (a then new) transistor audio output stage.

For a short while, I had a transistor inverter I'd built that plugged in in place of a vibrator. And, I also had a radio out of a Corvair which was all transistor.

I never did find the parts to repair that power antenna