Stock interiors

[Tonka Man]

What is the difference (besides the look) of the vertical stripe option for the interior and the button style?  I bought two '71 cars this year and one has the buttons and one has the vertical stripes.

From what I can tell, they are both very similar cars as far as options other than one has a vinyl top and the other has a painted top.

[Rob Peters]

The blue interior in the first picture, both the seats and the door panel are from a 70 interior.  The green one with the buttons  are from a 71/72 interior.  The seats would also have the buttons.  Another difference in the door panels between a 70 Monte and a 71/72 would be the map pocket in the door panel on the 71/72 because the 70 Monte did not have this map pocket.

rob

[willie]

I agree with what Rob said!!!

[Tonka Man]

Humm.  I'll have to check the VIN tag and door tag.  My title says '71 on the blue one.

Could a car built in late '70 have the vertical stripe interior but still be registered as a '71"?

[Rob Peters]

I would be very surprised.  Do you know when your car was built?  Look at the trim tag, take a picture of it and post it or send it to me and I will decode it to see when it was built and interior that was installed.

rob

[Canuck]

2 hours ago, Tonka Man said:

Humm.  I'll have to check the VIN tag and door tag.  My title says '71 on the blue one.

Could a car built in late '70 have the vertical stripe interior but still be registered as a '71"?

No, the factory does not work that way. They do a complete changeover before they start producing 1971s. It’s not uncommon for someone to have swapped an interior from one Monte into another.

[Tonka Man]

Here is the VIN tag for the one in question.

I think it is a 1970 after all.  The title is wrong.  I had a VIN inspection done and I had to apply for an uncontested title.  Somewhere some wires were crossed it looks like and the title is incorrect.

[cny first gen 71]

What does the windshield tag say, pretty sure that's the one that counts.

[Tonka Man]

I'm pretty sure I misinterpreted the year on this one.  The VIN starts with "70" also.

[Tonka Man]

Speaking of stock interiors, has anyone come across an interior in a Monte like this one?  This looks like something Mopar would do.  This is from a car I parted out years ago.  I was in Canada and I'm sure it is a Canadian car.  As I recall, the exterior was a copper or burnt orange color.

I don't have any reason to think this seat was re-upholstered but maybe so.

I still have the front and rear seat out of this car.  They are really rough but good cores.

[Dtret]

Sorry. But yuck. I would assume recovered. It does have the 70’s vibe. But again, yuck. It’s not a slip over cover?

[Canuck]

1 hour ago, Tonka Man said:

Speaking of stock interiors, has anyone come across an interior in a Monte like this one?  This looks like something Mopar would do.  This is from a car I parted out years ago.  I was in Canada and I'm sure it is a Canadian car.  As I recall, the exterior was a copper or burnt orange color.

I don't have any reason to think this seat was re-upholstered but maybe so.

I still have the front and rear seat out of this car.  They are really rough but good cores.

Definitely was recovered. 

[Michael Boyte]

3 hours ago, Tonka Man said:

Speaking of stock interiors, has anyone come across an interior in a Monte like this one?  This looks like something Mopar would do.  This is from a car I parted out years ago.  I was in Canada and I'm sure it is a Canadian car.  As I recall, the exterior was a copper or burnt orange color.

I don't have any reason to think this seat was re-upholstered but maybe so.

I still have the front and rear seat out of this car.  They are really rough but good cores.

It's rather difficult to imagine using that color choice in a Monte Carlo.  I too would have to imagine that it's been reupholstered.  As previously stated... YUCK. !! Now, that's just my opinion 😂 

[Tonka Man]

Mike,

Your image did not come through.  Did you find something with that style?

Thanks for the info.  I'm going to have to dig it out and look at it closer.  I saw that it was stitched into the perimeter vinyl bead so I just assumed this was a stock option back in the '70's.  I've seen some really wild interior options from GM, Ford and Mopar from that time frame.

[Scott S.]

Looks like something you'd use to make a polyester leisure suit out of.... 

[cny first gen 71]

1 hour ago, Scott S. said:

Looks like something you'd use to make a polyester leisure suit out of.... 

No those were more of a pastel color I had a nice powder blue one 😅 I had a pair of pants like that back in the day.

[Dtret]

It’s a golfers favorite chair. 

[willie]

2 hours ago, Dtret said:

It’s a golfers favorite chair. 

I was just going to say the same thing Dennis!!

[Leghome]

i would not wear them even on a golf course

[Scott S.]

20 hours ago, Dtret said:

It’s a golfers favorite chair. 

More like favourite shorts.... 

[Scott S.]

On 10/11/2024 at 9:10 AM, Canuck said:

Definitely was recovered. 

The headrests look wrong to me...... Should be closer together.

Looks more like a '73-'77 Monte seat.

[Jared Richey]

It's funny to me that GM basically Re used 1959 Cadillac interior styles in our Monte Carlos. 

The 70 had a more plain  series 62 style and the 71 72 had a Coupe Deville wide pleat with buttons style. Look it up you can't unsee it. Now the Caddy was much more fancy but the size of the pleats and the button placement are so similar