Silly Question

That's a question I've never been able to substantiate.
I have seen both and have never been able to determine if it was a body-color type thing.

Here is an unrestored '67 with no signs of paint within the letters as well

With them painted white you miss some of the detail of the letters making them look flat. Mine when I purchased the car.

I'm also curious, my '65 quarter emblems are white and don't look painted by someone but I've never seen white ones even in the parts catalogs they're always black. I like them white but which is correct, do any cars have white ones??

The MPC shows only one part number for each 65-68 LeMans letter. 65/66 letters were different from 67 and 67 was slightly different from 68.

I don't believe Pontiac would have the dealers body shop techs paint each individual letter. Too much lost time. Even the 69 GTO fender plate was color coded from the factory so the body techs wouldn't have to paint the lower bar body color.

64-67 rear fender GTO plate was always black lettered. The grill GTO plate was always white lettered.

With that being said, were 65/66 letters chrome and 67/68 white? or vice versa?
But, IMHO, LeMans/Tempest letters were all white.

Baaad; Possibly what you have is the GTO grill plate?

These are original when I bought my gto in 65. Both rear fenders and trunk.

Mine had black paint here that wasn't looking good so I polished it off and like it without any.