Beaumont67SD wrote:

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Pontiacanada wrote:

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Larry, what shape is the '67 SD in now?

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My 67SD (red on black) has been mothballed for the past 25 years

 

Sheetmetal - needs 2 full quarter panels and trunk floor install (Larry is, always looking for NOS 1/4's and front fenders).

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          With all due kindness, if you have not found 1/4's and  fenders in 25 years, where due you think you will find NOS for a 45 year old car, in the next 25 years?  How old would you be then?   just wondering

Nice fleet and welcome from Ingersoll ont.

68 327 4spd wrote:

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Nice fleet and welcome from Ingersoll ont.

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Hi there Brian / 68 327 4spd

I believe I saw your nice Beaumont, last summer at Pinafore Park, in St Thomas...maybe Fire Muster weekend...(??)

If I spot your car, I will be sure to drop by and say hello...now that I will recognize your wheels.

I like Ingersoll as a small town, been their a few time, searching for old vehicles...throughout the years.

....Larry

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Beaumont67SD wrote:

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65sssd wrote:

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427carl wrote:

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65sssd wrote:

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My Canadian built 65 SS chevelle had that same interior but with a white exterior. I have no idea where it is now and I hate selling cars because I always miss them. Nice fleet. I wish I had a few. Paul.

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            Looks like Larry might have as many as you 

 

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 I don't know what your talking about. Paul.

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427carl - thks. for taking the time, to properly load my pics...it is fun for me to share the old stories, we did what we had to do, back then...buy what we could afford, and goggle over the rest

65sssd - looks like many members here, are great at saving & building Canadian collections & outsanding rides (way beyond my modest fleet) / just glad I finally found this site, and can be a part of it

The green '67 (6 cyl) car was my first Beaumont...it had original paint, 45,000 miles, and rust holes on the bottom panels & trunk floor corners.
Purchased in 1976 while I was driving home (to London, ON.) and I was turning left at a set of red traffic lights when I spotted the car in the through lane.
I pulled up beside the gal, and motioned for her to roll down her window / she was reluctant to give me her address and I did manage to get her phone #...after I told her, I would bring my wife with me...to view the car, later that night.
She was divorced, but gave me her number and we struck a deal, that night / provided she report the broken windshield and have her insurance company replace it.
She calls up her insurance agent, and now he wants to buy the Beaumont to / but she kept her word, and it was mine, a week later
Then she called her insurance agent, and took off the coverage...he was pissed, after the windshield claim and the fact he asked to buy it.

Drove it up to my Dads farm (75 miles North) and over the next several months, proceeded to make sheetmental patch panels, that I brazed on...prior to mig.
This was car #4 that I was working on, in my farm implement garge / my twin brother and I had already taken over 2/3rd of the building...LOL.
My first amateur and self taught body and paint job, was on a 1966 Vailant 4 door, so this 2 door hardtop needed more love to keep the Oxy/Acet heat from warping the razor straight sheetmetal.
I made my own patch panels out of 19 or 20 gauge steel, using Vise Grip Welding clamps, a SnapOn body hammer and a 2 foot rail road tie for bending.
The passenger rear quarter lip was half replaced and 1 full patch behind and infront of the wheel 1/4 arch, was bazed up solid.
With a few autobody cars under my belt, I was so excited that I was beginning to control panel warpage, to a minimum...through earleir trial & error.

After College, I got married and this green Beaumont became our one & only every day car for 6 years straight...ended up putting 70,000 miles on it.
5 years after the first paint job, I hung good doors on it from a smashed '67 Chevelle parts car and did some spot repairs and repainted it.
A year later the harmonic balancer on the 6 cyl. was toast and the engine was using 1 quart of oil, with every tank of gas...so car was unplated.
Funny thing was, cars right blinker switch was always broke (replacement not found) so turning corners with one hand holding the turn signal lever while the other hand turned the steering wheel...and this with manual steering. (not fun for the wife, either)

This old green Beaumont, started my love affair for the Canadian Pontiac version of the Chevelle.
As I previously had a 1965 Deluxe 300 Chevelle 2 door post (194cu.in.6cyl.) for 3 years when I was 17 y/o, my preference's went to the Canadian models, over time. Once I discovered the rarety (and that was from taking a 3 week business trip to Ohio in 1980, and couldn't spot a Beaumont...to save my soul).
When my son was born, almost 30 years ago, it was the dependable and reliable old green Beaumont that picked up my wife and new born, at Victoria Hospital...with my first doberman (Tanya) on the back cloth seat.
The green Beau. was also a great ice breaker when I routinely scouted city sub divisions (with wife) on many Sunday mornings.
She even spotted '67 Chevelle rear tail light bezels through a white picket fence, from 2 blocks away...we bought that one to.
With the green machine, I could go up to a stranger and say: "I like your old Beaumont...I have one just like it" (then point to the car)...then say: "its the best vehicle I have ever owned" / while some others would say: "hey man, want to sell your car"?
This one car, got me more, throughout the years.
^^^^ just a 35 year old trip, down memory lane...I wanted to share...with the great members here / the used muscle car era and a daily driver

Cheers...Larry

-- Edited by Beaumont67SD on Sunday 20th of May 2012 03:17:49 PM

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 Well that was interesting and fictional. It has a good theme. Paul.

Welcome here,a vast knowledge of information!

awsome stories look forward to meeting someday live in and own business in lambeth .

Last few years, been wearing the "general contractor & design hat" on our country home renovation.
- we recently moved in and enjoying the quiet country life, a few miles outside of city limits.

And last but not least, through the packing & putting our former house up for sale, wife found an old photo
album with a 1989 picture she took, while I was moving vehicles.

Our Airport brick bungalow property (1960's country home) - living room shot:
a) Hickory wide plank flooring with 1920's Craftsman style reproduced hardwood custom mill work
b) Two hardwood mantle ledges, from 60 y/o saw milled white oak plant (2" thick), from family farm found
in upstairs rafters of barn, stored for decades (board ends cut off with Dad's vintage 1967 Pioneer-Holiday
chain saw...old growth wood has tiny dried out worm holes, pressure washed keeping original patina &
urethane applied without sanding or adding any stain. Lower plank, for antique display. - some family
heirlooms, to show case.

And finally, the 1967 Beaumont Sport Deluxe:

Bought one mint Chevelle front fender from a bankruptcy auction, I waited all day at...my winning bid was $35.

- no one else could properly identified year/make of rust free panel
(a few locals, were the shill bidders......and out of there comfort zone, in jacking up the price far enough)