Factory installed phone. Anyone have one......no, no, anyone have one working in their car?

[Dave Dunbar]

I know they existed, seen it in the service section in the back of the Buick manual. What do they look like?

 

[NY Twin Turbo]

Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember these! My friend had one is his Doge Shadow! It had a cord on it and everything. We thought we were soooooooooo cool.

 

[AllGoNShow]

Was it a factory option or just an add-on phone?

 

[hiboom]

mine has a hole in the back glass and a small antenna looks pretty factory the way the hole is drilled threw the glass and the position of the wire under the headliner

 

[Dave Dunbar]

I dug a little deeper, only C,H and E body Buicks had this option.
But maybe it found its way into a G-body.

 

[AllGoNShow]

mine has a hole in the back glass and a small antenna looks pretty factory the way the hole is drilled threw the glass and the position of the wire under the headliner

a hole??? I thought modern systems just had a piece one each side of the glass but no actual hole?

 

[hiboom]

a hole??? I thought modern systems just had a piece one each side of the glass but no actual hole?

yes, a hole I was going to remove mine and was surprised to find a hole threw the glass looks like the glass was made with the hole in it I know I could put a rubber plug in it. but just left it instead.

 

[AllGoNShow]

Good to know on the old systems!

 

[earlbrown]

That was ballsy. In my install days we used through glass antennas on windows. The only time I'd ever drill a hole was in sheetmetal on stuff like work trucks. Never in glass.

 

[hiboom]

That was ballsy. In my install days we used through glass antennas on windows. The only time I'd ever drill a hole was in sheetmetal on stuff like work trucks. Never in glass.

that's what I thought ! and assumed it was factory and made with the hole pre molded

 

[NY Twin Turbo]

that's what I thought ! and assumed it was factory and made with the hole pre molded

I've seen it done. But I have never done it without shattering the glass. I've practiced on scrap pieces and was always unsuccessful.

 

[Dennis Kirban]

I remember looking in the 1987 dealer album they got just a few lines of copy . It was not offered in the Regal but someof the upscale Buick models.

I remember "bag" phones....

Being in the towing business back then I remember the fixed hard phones in BMWs mostly...I towed for a huge BMW dealership back then.

I remember when I got my first cell phone....went to dinner on a Sunday at my folks house and when everyone was sitting down for dinner I went in the other room and called the home number....to get their reaction....

I remember a few years later I took a road trip around the USA....my Dad would call me every other day or so by the time I got home I had a $800 phone bill for the month I was gone!

To this day I use a simple flip phone...can't stand the new ones....even Richard Clark uses a simple flip phone....easy to drive a stick shift car with a flip phone.....

denniskirban@yahoo.com

 

[novaderrik]

if you had one, it wouldn't work on the modern digital networks... they shut off the last analog cell towers well over a decade ago.

 

[Dennis Kirban]

Thats true about analog format.....it would strictly be a novelty item. I have my parents princess phone in my home office also a real payphone no key but I hear money rattling it the coin box.

Formats on many electronic devices change rapidily....in recent years.

denniskirban@yahoo.com