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Streets,

That's the point, negative ground is good no matter what brand, but the early British cars and some early GM cars had positive ground and hence a constant battery leak through static transfer of the otherwise nonconducting tires. Negative ground, good; positive ground, problems! Yes Lucas got the point too somewhere around 1970, possibly 1968 as you say and changed their grounding, but the earlier cars had electrical systems that led to discovery of new swear words! My '73 Midget had negative ground, but in and around other owners of earlier British cars they would always ask me how I liked the Lucas electrical system with a smirk on their face and I would say that I had the newer negative ground. While we are chatting, can you tell me exactly how you had the horizontal antenna mounted, the orientation is not the question. You are saying you connected it to the frame?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder