I know the guy who bought this trooper new (he also got an automatic LS version 2 weeks later back in 1991). He lives across the street where I grew up. I know that he didn't put a winch mount on there... the mount is inside the front bumper, connects to the bumper mounts and has an additional flat bar in the middle that connects it to the middle front end of the frame. It is so well placed that I didn't even notice it until about a month or so ago. I have since looked at all the Troopers that I come across and I have never seen anything like this.