I've been into old trucks my whole life but I've just recently started to get interested in ham radio.  When I say recently I mean that my Baofeng UV-5R got delivered last week and I tuned into a local repeater and listened to some talk for the first time on Thursday evening.  I'm starting to learn the basics but I'm a total radio newb at this point.  I plan to get my license but I haven't started studying yet.  In an odd coincidence I just bought a '76 Dodge M880 US military truck that had gone to a South Dakota fire department after it was decommissioned.  I got it home and was cleaning out the interior when I looked behind the seat and saw what looked to me like a radio of some sort based on the FCC info on the tag.  I couldn't get a close look at it since I couldn't figure out how to fold the seat forward.  I'm not sure it even does.
But I was able to snap a picture of the info tag and it had the following information:
Motorola, Inc.
MITREK
Prim Pwr 12v
FCC Xmtr Data CC1147
FCC Rcvr Data RC0213
Model No. T51JJA3900BK
Serial No. 433HEWXXXX

I did some searching around online and I was able to learn that it's a "low band, low power", 25-50MHz radio.  Other than that everything I found about it was over my head at this point.  I'm sure that it was used by the fire department for comms.  I don't have any other pieces other than the main radio unit.  No power cables or mics or anything.  There's a whip antenna on the roof of the truck and what looks like a base for another antenna on the back of the cab.
Does this radio have any practical use for a beginner ham operator, or any use for any level of ham?  Is it something that's worth having or is it basically a doorstop?
Thanks.
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The Mitrek was a very solid radio in its day.  But it's a rockbound (crystal controlled, actually it used "channel elements") radio from the 70s into the early 80s.

I hate to say it but it's pretty much worthless today.   If it were a complete running system with everything you need on frequencies you want, it'd be worth keeping it, but apparently you don't even have a control head for it.  Maybe not even a control cable.

I could get one running if I had the whole setup.  But I wouldn't be likely to bother with it.

If the radio unit is locked down on its base and installed in the vehicle, you need a Motorola no. 2135 key to unlock the chassis lock handle and remove it.  You can get those keys off ebay for a buck or two.

I recently sold our 1949 ALF Pumper with no radio-you got a better deal and a more practical truck.

this link will help you as a newbie

Sorry I never wrote back.  I got busy with other stuff and pretty much forgot about it.  Thanks for the info, though.  I kinda figured it was obsolete but I was hoping that maybe it was something really cool.  Oh well.