[DavidG]

The rear spare wheel antenna came into being during the '33 model year for use on open cars, which of course had no chicken wire in their top construction. Dennis Carpenter at one time offered a complete kit replicating the original. The critical aspect of it is the insulation of the spare tire bracket from the body sheet metal.

Unlike in a '33-'34 closed car, the chicken wire in a '32 closed car roof is in direct contact with the sheet metal of the roof and it would have to be trimmed back away from the edges to eliminate that contact. About the only feasible way to accomplish that would entail having to redo the top insert which is a pretty big undertaking.

I'm not sure that the radio reception with both pieces of an original '32 running board antenna would be all that bad as it had both a horizontal and vertical orientation as shown in the photos below. Finding both original components would be a real challenge and then there would the momentous decisions to drill four holes through the running board to attach the horizontal section and to cut two big rectangular chunks out of the floor pan to accommodate the receiver and motor generator.