Radio delete?

[John Brown]

When I ordered a new Chevy pick up in 1976, I already had a stereo radio to put in it. I ordered the truck with out a radio, but had to order a RPO package that included the windshield antenna, otherwise the truck would have come without the antenna in the windshield. Dont know if it was that way in 70, but that's how it was in 76.

By the way, windshield antennas SUCK ! At least on AM radio, and that was about all there was in this part of the country in 1970.

[@wot]

Gm did have a code, U74, that specified an antenna , but no radio.

[Allen]

I would think that all windshields were the same (with the antenna). That way, if a radio had to be installed by the dealer, they wouldn't have to change a windshield or drill a hole in a fender to put on an external antenna.

Check out your dash bezel...... does it say "tuning" and "volume" in the plastic below the radio area? If not, then the bezel was a radio-delete part and was cut/trimmed. If it has those letters molded in, then it came with a radio if it's the original bezel.