I've seen this Motorola antenna on a couple of Panteras back in the 80s. One was on this location and another on the roof. The first had it for a mobile telephone service(before cell phones) and the other for mobile 2-way radio (like the police cruisers had back in the day). You definitely had to drill a hole to to mount this.
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