Curiosity question.

If it was ordered with "radio delete" the antenna was omitted.  

I neither have an antenna on that copper car or the orange Super Bee 440 6-Pack. I'm not usually the indicator though since many of my models may be pre-production or prototypes. 

We'll see as others weight in. But I do have a note on the car.

"Danbury's diecast department head, James Wolff, routinely would email me tidbits of information about diecast models due to be released, and regarding prototypes that I would be sent for review purposes. Some models were also brought to me by DM's Rick Hanmore who was a regular guest at our home whenever he visited his sister and her family, a couple of towns over. Sometimes the models were prototypes or pre-production models with something built in that should not be there and I was to avoid photographing that. A Corvette with both window cranks and electric window activators. Or something was missing and that, too, was to be avoided. Most often I had the model well in advance of the release date so I was asked to "Embargo" the model - put it in our database but place a pre-approved date, given to me by James, in the automated system so it would not appear until on schedule as a new release.

This model had what James called an 'Easter Egg', for me to find. It turned out to be the VIN plate and its decryption. I had already found the tiny red lever under the dash and told James. It operates the damper in the hood's Ramcharger air system. But the secret that James asked me to "keep between us" was, the VIN WM29H9D081468. OK, WM29= the body style: Super Bee hardtop. H = engine displacement: 383 4 bbl, 335 HP. The 9 was the last digit of the build year = 1969. D = assembly plant. (A was for Lynch Road, B was for Hamtrack, E for Los Angeles, G for St. Louis - so naturally, James went on to say, D stood for Danbury.)

The rest of the VIN was 081468 = His Birthday! He wanted to see if anyone, besides Chris Novak, would get it. No one has remarked about it to date, so now you know the 'rest of the story'." 

Thanks guys, interesting info. This is what a fellow collector sent me. "I know that there were two versions. Look at the dashboard and see if there's a radio because, if I recall correctly, that was the issue. There was no radio, but there was an antenna on the early ones." I looked at mine, it shows a radio in the dash, and it does have an antenna. 😊

I just pulled mine out of the cabinet, and it has a radio, but no antenna.  

@carsman1958 Hmm, strange indeed.😊

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I just pulled mine out of the cabinet, and it has a radio, but no antenna.  

Great little story too, thanks Tony

Mine has no antenna but I can't get to it to see if it has a radio.