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Nice looking van, I'd go with a mirror mount bracket on the drivers side right behind the drivers door, as high up as you can get it on the metal. Go with a wilson 5000 trucker, use a long enough shaft to get the whole coil above the roofline, and drill a hole to bring your coax in through. Use RG8x. Second choice would be a hood/fender lip mount on the drivers side..either with an angle cut to keep it perfectly vertical, or use a flat mount infront of the hood screwed to the top of the core support. Bring the coax in through the firewall/doghouse. You could mount on the passenger side behind the rear side door, but thats not an optimal location for use on the highway..Whatever you do, ground all your doors to the body, and your "hood" to the body..the braid from some old coax works great..Also, ground the exhaust to the unibody with some braid strap at each end of the vehicle. Subtle mods like these can help make up a LITTLE bit of the performance loss for going with a form over function antenna system..I'm going to attempt to attatch a couple of the pics I tagged with potential mounting locations. The yellow circles mark potential mounting locations.
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