Our 67 ragtop

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?

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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

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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.
 
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
 
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