Is this Monarch a Monarch after all?

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This picture was sent over to us by reader Andre van de Loo. He has a simple question: "Can anyone identify this car?" Now, we were pretty sure we'd seen it before with that signature licence plate and a quick google search indeed showed up with the answer, or so it seemed: a 1950 Monarch. That's the Canadian car brand which was meant to fill a gap in the national Canadian market, but that only lasted for a couple of years.  With 1950 in fact as its very last year of production (wrong! That was 1961-ed). A brief but well written short history of the Monarch make can be read here. It surely is an interesting story.

But what's with this one? Over to Andre once again, who adds: "I know what the owner claims that it is and also that he says that the car has never been modified in any way. However, I have my doubts, as the the grille on this particular car differs from the grille on the standard cars of this model (see picture 2)." He has a point there, as the vertical bars certainly are not visible on this particular car. Were they removed? Or is it something else? Perhaps the grille was simply changed? We came across this post, too, showing the 'Nasty' plate on a hot rod with (the correct?) Monarch grille in front... You tell us.  

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