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Originally posted by extrafast:
Husker: "What a shame"
But its original, nothing anyone have drilled, so Im just curious of what it was ment for.

Ulf


Don't believe I've ever seen anything located at that spot on an original car. Of course, anything is possible. US cars didn't come with an antenna. It was dealer installed. If it is for the antenna it is indeed in a unique location.
Hi again

Serial is #3422, year-72, but because the lid fit so bad in the front end I think it is substituted.
It was too dark to get a photo, (9.00pm in Sweden) I will post a photo tomorrow.
But I can assure that its not a aftermarket hole, It would be nearly impossible to do it so nice. It is a distance between the outer and the inner sheet metal. I bought the car from Florida, but it had reg plates from Washington.

Ulf
Ulf,

Never say never, as they say. The car had a non-original wing installed, the trim around the deckled opening is not original and the car has definitely been re-painted at least once (as reported), so there are many possibilities (including that the deck came from another car at some point). Regardless of how nice the hole looks, it seems quite unlikely to be a factory hole because even the factory would have started with a solid deck lid and added the hole in the same way a competent fabricator would have. I tend to agree that it was likely an added antenna. Since there is already a front fender antennae, maybe it was for a CB radio which were very popular in the late 70's and early 80's.

Mark
It is a smaller nut-cert within a larger one. The threads have been removed leaving just the shell.

There are a bunch of different manufacturers of the "nut-certs". Slightly different designs. Various choices of metals.

I'm not particularly familiar with that brand, but that's what it is.

Something, non-factory had been mounted there that used a large hole and the solution was to dress the hole to make it look professional.

If that is Detomaso original, then you have the only one ever built?

I would just find a black plastic plug that fits snuggly enough in the hole and forget about it. That is what I would do anyway.

Thanks for posting the pictures.
It's not original, it can be welded and repaired,if done right, only you would ever know it was their, but it will mean you would have to repaint the sail. People in the 70's and 80's, who wanted to communicate with other people on the road would mount C.B. antennas ( before cell phones), that may be why they cut a hole their, I have seen people drill holes in the roof!
Sometimes easy=stupid.
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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I ran with a CB once or twice convoying to the Fun Rally's, that was before those 2 way radios became popular and had any decent range.

I made a bracket that bolted onto the decklid hinge mounting and stuck out the decklid cutout, no drilling required.

Julian
Original or not? Don't know. On that thought, to which degree was it possible to have your car customized by the factory? I think all Longchamps, Deauvilles, and European later Panteras, you could order anything as long as you had Lire, right? But for the 4 years that DeTomaso shipped Panteras to the US, I guess that besides colour they were all the same?

Or?

I have the wish list for my Longchamp where the happy first owner just ticked boxes and paid the piper...

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