472 views, 21 replies in <12 hours. Not bad for a Board dedicated to a marque of such limited production..... They only built 7,697 SyTy's, vs 358,000 C4's.

Gary Shannok is a long-time professional audio / alarm installer in the Miami area. He posted "antenna for teletrac type device". Odd location, but a Corvette's GRP body is transparent to RF, so I guess it would work, but its not very well concealed. I've found trackers in Syclones and Typhoons installed when the cars were new (91-93), and some of the installations were very ingenious and well-concealed.

I also like this one posted by Mike in Denver who is a long-time Independent used car dealer / broker: "looks like an old school dealer installed theft system, there is a transponder fob deal that you run over it to start the car. "

The "gaydar" comment was a friendly jab between two long-time peeps that often dic with each other. Completely "normal" considering the source and intended recipient.....

Thanks for visiting my "other car-hobby" site.

I poked around in the wires and can add a little more info.  There is a second rectangular device connected to this unknown disc.  They are connected to the instrument panel/speedometer by two wires.  One wire is spliced to a pink wire in a blue connector and the other wire is spliced into a red wire in a black connector.  I do not know what these two wires connect to in the instrument panel/speedometer area.  Maybe it is so the government/CIA/space aliens can watch me and track where I go?

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Now it's looking more like it IS a locating antennae set-up. We install stuff like that sometimes on cars that are financed, so the lender can locate, and disable the vehicle if they need to./ Makes re-poing them much easier.

I looked in my 95 Helms manual and cant find connector colors as described for the inst panel. The only "red" wire I could find is a red/blk stripe in the theft deterrent system for the rear hatch input. Pink is almost universially hot in IGN position in a GM car. So it knows when the key is in run.

I have no idea what the "red" wire is. It most likely is NOT a "hot at all times" battery wire, as red is only used for unfused circuits. Once they are from a fuse, "hot at all times" is orange. There are no unfused circuits in the cabin except the ign switch and light switch feeds.

Today I removed the trim panel, cut the wires and took the unidentified aftermarket item out of the car.  I thought that because it was spliced into the wires in the Vette that it would not affect its starting and running if I took it out.  The car started and runs OK after I did take it out.  There are no identifying names or words on it of any kind, only the numbers 021095 stamped on the rectangular piece.  I untangled all the wires and took another picture of the device, so if anyone has ever seen something like this they can let me know what it might be.  Thanks.

We need to call Mulder and Sculley...


I think it is part of a GPS locator, for a finance company, or just basically a "lo-jack" of some sort. Chunk it in the garbage....

Put it on E-Bay and I'll bet that someone will buy it for more than it is worth. If you do, please post what you got for it.  Fred