Our 67 ragtop

[67 monaco ragtop mark]

You have Polara tail lights. The Monaco 500 had "MONACO" spelled out on the back, and it had the short piece of trim under the letters. Regular Canadian Monaco's, and all US/Canadian Polara's, had DODGE letters on the trunk, and no short piece of trim.

I highly doubt that your tail lights are the original lights for your car. If your front grill does not have a horizontal bar in the center, then it's a Polara center.

UNLESS - all convertibles had MONACO spelled out on the back, regardless if the car was a 500 or not?

 

[67 monaco ragtop mark]

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I really don’t know enough yet, to know what it should or shouldn’t have

 

[sask67ragtop]

You have Polara tail lights. The Monaco 500 had "MONACO" spelled out on the back, and it had the short piece of trim under the letters. Regular Canadian Monaco's, and all US/Canadian Polara's, had DODGE letters on the trunk, and no short piece of trim.

I highly doubt that your tail lights are the original lights for your car. If your front grill does not have a horizontal bar in the center, then it's a Polara center.

UNLESS - all convertibles had MONACO spelled out on the back, regardless if the car was a 500 or not?

I can’t say if anything changed on the car prior to our family buying it in about 1981. This my grill

 

[MoPar~Man]

I really don’t know enough yet, to know what it should or shouldn’t have

I thought I saw in another photo the thin chrome strip on the trunk in the center under the letters.

Looks like you don't have backup lights - housings or maybe just the lenses are missing. Somewhat odd to see front bumper guards but not the rears.

Unless you're looking for 1000% correct originality this isin't an issue because yours look fine - but in 1967 the front turn signal lenses were clear plastic. In 1968 they were orange tinted.

I'm not sure about the antenna mounting but I'm pretty certain they were never mounted on the rear fender.

 

[67 monaco ragtop mark]

I thought I saw in another photo the thin chrome strip on the trunk in the center under the letters.

Looks like you don't have backup lights - housings or maybe just the lenses are missing. Somewhat odd to see front bumper guards but not the rears.

Unless you're looking for 1000% correct originality this isin't an issue because yours look fine - but in 1967 the front turn signal lenses were clear plastic. In 1968 they were orange tinted.

I'm not sure about the antenna mounting but I'm pretty certain they were never mounted on the rear fender.

It has a factory am radio, but no holes in front fenders
My backup lights are definitely missing and have small round lights just to pass safety. They are on the shopping list

 

[Mr C]

Great looking Monaco! It will be even better with the trim on it.

 

[MoPar~Man]

It has a factory am radio, but no holes in front fenders
My backup lights are definitely missing and have small round lights just to pass safety. They are on the shopping list

Your car was repainted at some point. The factory color was black. It's highly likey they filled in all the trim holes and antenna hole and moved the antenna hole to the rear fender. It might be that the original side trim was not in good shape and they decided it was not going back on after the paint job. Do you have any of the side trim as spare parts? Look inside the trunk, along the sides near the top for evidence that there were holes there for the belt-line trim. They were spaced about a foot apart.

I've seen a few listings from time to time over the past few years on ebay for backup housings and lenses.

 

[67 monaco ragtop mark]

Your car was repainted at some point. The factory color was black. It's highly likey they filled in all the trim holes and antenna hole and moved the antenna hole to the rear fender. It might be that the original side trim was not in good shape and they decided it was not going back on after the paint job. Do you have any of the side trim as spare parts? Look inside the trunk, along the sides near the top for evidence that there were holes there for the belt-line trim. They were spaced about a foot apart.

I've seen a few listings from time to time over the past few years on ebay for backup housings and lenses.

All the trim holes are still there. The trim was in the trunk. It was repainted the first time in the early 70s and repainted again just before the father in law got sick in the 90s. All I need is the clips that hold the trim on and it will all be reinstalled.
There is no patch filling an antenna hole.
I will have to decipher the fender tag and get the definitive answer . Under the hood and in the trunk is black…

 

[schankdaddy]

I brought my Windsor built 65 Dodge Monaco to an Upolstery shop years ago The owner was an old guy and he asked me if I had a build sheet for it is that the time I didn’t even know what that meant and I told him exactly that…. He stated that on the Canadian built Dodge’s usually put the sheet under the passenger seat tucked between the springs and lapping…Sure thing, that’s where it was!…hope this helps

 

[67 monaco ragtop mark]

I brought my Windsor built 65 Dodge Monaco to an Upolstery shop years ago The owner was an old guy and he asked me if I had a build sheet for it is that the time I didn’t even know what that meant and I told him exactly that…. He stated that on the Canadian built Dodge’s usually put the sheet under the passenger seat tucked between the springs and lapping…Sure thing, that’s where it was!…hope this helps

I will definitely look, but my seats have been reupholstered