1967 Dodge Monaco two door

[Toastno6]

Hey thanks for the info - I'll definitely search them out - although shipping costs to the UK are pretty steep at the moment - I'm ok with creative though!

Oh cool! Where are you from? I’m from St. Albans and grew up in Hertfordshire! I’ve got a crappy old MGB as well. Part of my buying the Monaco was so I could park them side by side in the driveway

 

[HWYCRZR]

If you put the top down it may fit in the “boot”.

 

[Toastno6]

Just got this thing registered this morning for the first time since 1989! I’ve done a bunch of little things here and there buttoning up the build including all new brake hardware and shoes, seam sealing and painting, seatbelts, making a filler neck, trying to solve a frozen diff fill plug, packing bearings etc etc. Just got to get it passed Mass state inspection

 

[Toastno6]

 

[Toastno6]

Pretty much exactly three months ago I finally bit the bullet on this thing and set about tackling all the issues I had no idea how to fix. Lots of burns, bruises, wrong parts and wrecked parts later this heap of rust that had been sitting in a RI junk yard since 1989 is now back on the road. There’s plenty more still to do but at least I can take her to the Audrain Cars ‘n Coffee and let her take her rightful place amongst the pristine rows of restored American metal. She bears her scars but frankly I think all the other cars should cower in fear because here’s one road going barge that doesn’t mind getting scratched

 

[WOT440]

Back from the dead.

 

[GOLDMYN]

nice job of metal fab

 

[Fratzog]

Being late to another great thread is my MO. Your fabrication skills are excellent and I like that you seem to have made every effort to conform to the factory contours. You will have so much blood sweat and tears invested in this one that you will have a hard time letting it go.

 

[RGORHAM29]

Beautiful looking Monaco! Just a quick tip, that front bumper looks to be completely salvageable- just use coca-cola and crumpled up aluminium foil, douse it and rub. It's abrasive enough to scrub the rust off without scratching the chrome. You have to make sure to wax it or put some kind of protectively layer on afterwards, as the rust will eventually come back if exposed to oxygen.

i used white vinegar with the aluminum foil. Worked fantastic! Night and day.

 

[RGORHAM29]

Pretty much exactly three months ago I finally bit the bullet on this thing and set about tackling all the issues I had no idea how to fix. Lots of burns, bruises, wrong parts and wrecked parts later this heap of rust that had been sitting in a RI junk yard since 1989 is now back on the road. There’s plenty more still to do but at least I can take her to the Audrain Cars ‘n Coffee and let her take her rightful place amongst the pristine rows of restored American metal. She bears her scars but frankly I think all the other cars should cower in fear because here’s one road going barge that doesn’t mind getting scratched


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Congrats!

 

[Toastno6]

So after a radiator swap, pulling the fuel tank to reseal the sender (getting drenched in about three gallons of gas), slicing the brass flare nipple out of a seized power steering pump to install into an o-ring pump I had lying around, straightening a pretzeled push rod and then spending the last two days chasing a charging issue I finally have this thing to a point where I feel I could take it on a decent road trip. Running about 190 degrees everywhere except the freeway where it hits around 200 (gauge accuracy? Who knows). Scored a stock four barrel intake and have 600 and 750cfm Holleys to play with. Also got peer pressured into a Huges whiplash cam kit Now to fix the busted motor mount that’s causing the engine to leap out of the engine bay like a salmon

 

[Toastno6]

 

[65sporty]

Great project

 

[Fratzog]

Thanks for the update. Looks like progress!

 

[Toastno6]

Awesome couple of weekends really wringing this thing out on highways and backroads. Ran it out to Worcester yesterday in 95 degree heat and it ran cool and behaved itself in a way my MG never would. Made it to the 24hrs of LeMons out in Thompson CT with a VW buddy and managed to cannonball down to Newport CT in between for it's first car show at the Audrain cars ‘n coffee. Overall about 488 miles on her in the last week. Only issue was a corroded fuse killing the brake lights. Ten minute fix

Turns out mine wasn’t the only Monaco at the track either!