For Glamis they require that any vehicles going into the dunes have a buggy whip. When your at the bottom of the dunes it can be near impossible for oncoming traffic to see you if you didn’t have one of the buggy whips. At night you need to have one that has a light on top. Unfortunately jeeps don’t come standard with a place to attach your buggy whip.

To solve this I grabbed a CB Antenna mount from the local Off Road Warehouse. The mount is manufactured by Terraflex and ran me $19.99. It was easy to mount. Just remove the brake light by taking out the three bolts (shown below).

You will need to splice into the rear running lights for power. Through trial and error (and now you’ll know the easy way) I found that on the 2004 jeep the running lights are the black with yellow stripe wire. I used a hand grinder to clear the paint off of the back of the bracket and where the bolts tighten into the body of the jeep so that I would have a good ground. After splicing into the running lights then you just attach the mounting bracket by placing it between the body and the rear light and replacing the 3 bolts. You are then able to mount the buggy whip recepticle (the silver piece you see in the top picture) to the attenna bracket. The buggy whip screws into this recepticle (making it easy to take off for long travel and storage). Unfortunately our camera broke on this trip but I’ll add a photo of the buggy whip in place (with pirate flag ) on our next desert trip.

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