This morning, I happened upon a video of a dark teal (not an original color, but beautiful IMHO) 2dr 1971 Monaco in Mexico on YouTube. It had been posted on July 27, i.e., a good week ago:
The owner is called Manix ("Muchas gracias al buen Manix por mostrarme su coche"), and is seen at 0:24 in the video:
I searched more about the car and found a bunch of 2023 high-res pics on a public FB post by the YT video poster, AutoArqueologia:
Ignore what is likely a non-OEM outside rear-view mirror on the driver's door. What struck me when reviewing the photos, is that the front door panels (and the re-upholstered front bench) look like those of a 1970 US-market Monaco (not those of a 1971 US Monaco):
To check, I looked up the always helpful Hamtrack Registry Library for pics of the 1970 and 1971 Monaco interiors. Sure enough, while the Mexican car's a 1971 model, its front door panels and front bench look like 1970 US-market H3 codes:
1970:
1971:
The rear seat (reupholstered but showing the original shape and buttons) of this neat car are also in line with the H3 interior (though the button placement and number seems different):
I thought that maybe someone had replaced the panels and the seats, but the color match of the panels with the dash is spot-on. Funny thing is, the interior of this car is brown ("tan") but there was no tan interior choice for the US Monaco in 1970 (see Hamtramck) -- but there was in 1971 (T7 as per Hamtramck, which matches the interior of the specimen we are now discussing).
Unfortunately, the fender tag is missing from her radiator support: the only information that I gathered from the two folks talking in the video is that the motor is a 360.
While casually researching the matter on this lazy Sunday, I happened upon the photos of a 4dr 1971 sedan that was for sale back in 2016 (the ad for that silver car was posted on FCBO by @fc7_plumcrazy and is still available from the original site). Lo and behold, it has the same front panel pattern as the black 2-dr!
Again, the front end and dash of that (EA4 ?) Monaco sedan are clearly of the 1971 vintage -- but both front door panels and the front sbench (also reupholstered) look like those of a 1970 US Monaco 4dr (in this case, H4):
The likelihood that two 1971 Dodge Monaco survivors in Mexico have had their seats and door panels similarly replaced by 1970-vintage ones is, if not zero, very (VERY) small.
--> We know that some Canadian-market fuselage senior Dodges have different interiors than US-market ones (@marko @kmccabe56 and others have commented on cars in Canada). We also know that Chrysler Corp. produced between 1969 and 1974 a Chrysler 383 model that was essentially a local-market version of the same-year Dodge Monaco -- see the thread that @Walter Joy created on this topic).
--> question for our best and brightest members (especially @Strangelo, a member from Puebla Mexico who inherited a 1971 Monaco wagon from his father and posted about it here): was there be a Mexican-market Monaco?
The owner is called Manix ("Muchas gracias al buen Manix por mostrarme su coche"), and is seen at 0:24 in the video:
I searched more about the car and found a bunch of 2023 high-res pics on a public FB post by the YT video poster, AutoArqueologia:
Ignore what is likely a non-OEM outside rear-view mirror on the driver's door. What struck me when reviewing the photos, is that the front door panels (and the re-upholstered front bench) look like those of a 1970 US-market Monaco (not those of a 1971 US Monaco):
To check, I looked up the always helpful Hamtrack Registry Library for pics of the 1970 and 1971 Monaco interiors. Sure enough, while the Mexican car's a 1971 model, its front door panels and front bench look like 1970 US-market H3 codes:
1970:
1971:
The rear seat (reupholstered but showing the original shape and buttons) of this neat car are also in line with the H3 interior (though the button placement and number seems different):
I thought that maybe someone had replaced the panels and the seats, but the color match of the panels with the dash is spot-on. Funny thing is, the interior of this car is brown ("tan") but there was no tan interior choice for the US Monaco in 1970 (see Hamtramck) -- but there was in 1971 (T7 as per Hamtramck, which matches the interior of the specimen we are now discussing).
Unfortunately, the fender tag is missing from her radiator support: the only information that I gathered from the two folks talking in the video is that the motor is a 360.
While casually researching the matter on this lazy Sunday, I happened upon the photos of a 4dr 1971 sedan that was for sale back in 2016 (the ad for that silver car was posted on FCBO by @fc7_plumcrazy and is still available from the original site). Lo and behold, it has the same front panel pattern as the black 2-dr!
Again, the front end and dash of that (EA4 ?) Monaco sedan are clearly of the 1971 vintage -- but both front door panels and the front sbench (also reupholstered) look like those of a 1970 US Monaco 4dr (in this case, H4):
The likelihood that two 1971 Dodge Monaco survivors in Mexico have had their seats and door panels similarly replaced by 1970-vintage ones is, if not zero, very (VERY) small.
--> We know that some Canadian-market fuselage senior Dodges have different interiors than US-market ones (@marko @kmccabe56 and others have commented on cars in Canada). We also know that Chrysler Corp. produced between 1969 and 1974 a Chrysler 383 model that was essentially a local-market version of the same-year Dodge Monaco -- see the thread that @Walter Joy created on this topic).
--> question for our best and brightest members (especially @Strangelo, a member from Puebla Mexico who inherited a 1971 Monaco wagon from his father and posted about it here): was there be a Mexican-market Monaco?
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