I live in the Winnipeg area and am in the process of restoring with a little modification my 69 Beaumont Custom 2 dr hardtop. The car was a six cylinder car but that will be changed. The body is of the frame and the frame has been sandblasted and painted. Have upgraded to disc brakes up front and in the process of bolting in with some modification a 8.5 in. 4.11 geared rear end. Hope do do more in future as am now retired after 36 years at the railroad. I love Pontiacs and here is a list of some I have owned over the years;

58 4 dr , 63 Parrisian convertable ,64 custom sport,66  laurention,67 Firebird sprint 3.8 L overhead cam car, 68 Firebird 400 convertable four speed car and the car I now have my 69 Beaumont custom 2 dr hardtop. Any one know of the production figures for this car. (73537)

Ian  

Ian, welcome here from your neighbour 1/2 hour south of Winnipeg. Too bad you weren't here a week sooner. A whole group of us Manitoban's on here just had a long breakfast and gathering at our house here last Saturday! Make sure you read here faithfully as I suspect we may try to do it again in the spring.

Welcome aboard Ian! Todd

The Manitobans are going to take over this place...... Beware!

Carl Stevenson wrote:

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The Manitobans are going to take over this place......

Beware!

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maybe, for a while,  but in the end you'll simply be outnumbered - mere statistics!

anyways, back to topic,  welcome Beaumont 6008!  this is a good place to hang your discussion/information hat.

its about time we got a new 69 on here ,we were getting lonely

Carl Stevenson wrote:

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Ian, welcome here from your neighbour 1/2 hour south of Winnipeg.

Too bad you weren't here a week sooner. A whole group of us Manitoban's on here just had a long breakfast and gathering at our house here last Saturday! Make sure you read here faithfully as I suspect we may try to do it again in the spring.

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        Welcome to the site!  Any neighbor of Carl's  is  welcome   Ask Carl about the "Newbie swag" package  Everyone is getting one...

Welcome!  You didn't tell us what engine you were planning to install...

Welcome aboard!

greeting and salutations we love beaumonts here. and picts, any picts? i'm retired too but from the military. now time to work on the project just no money.

Sound good Carl, just my luck always seem to be late and a dollar short. Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. Hope I can contribute a little knowledge to this site.  What engine EH, well I have two options sitting in my garage, a 400 small block that needs well everthing and well this one may make a few die hards cringe
a 400 Pontiac big block that I was thinking of stroking to 461. Wonder if I should put this to a vote in the future. Well not to worry I have plenty of other things to do before I get to the engine.

Ian

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 at 15:32, 2009-01-29

I vote 400 sbc, and then put those 307 fender flashes on. Hehehe

-- Edited by 73SC at 17:21, 2009-01-29

welcome ian...i vote(surprisingly) sbc 400

Hello Ian! Welcome to a great place to hang out! I vote for the sbc 400.

hard call. we are all partial to our chevy powered pontiacs but i thought the 400 were a little weak in the bores with not enough space between them for proper cooling. i would look for something else

Small block Chev. Much easier to install in that chassis since it's wired and mounts are already there for it.

Welcome to the site. My vote is for the 572.....then put the 307 badging on

Welcome my vote is do what you want . Its your car only 3 people you need to please your wife your self and if you are divorced the layer

 I guess a small block would keep it all Canadian and a whole lot cheeper to build compared to that Poncho block. Well I am a ways from that yet and who knows what will fall into my lap before I get to it. I had a 396 and a 307 and a 365 horse 327 years ago but burnt in a garage fire , the heat split the blocks. Had tears in my eyes overthat, specialy when I just got my 396 back from the machine shop.   

Ian


-- Edited by Beaumont4008 at 18:38, 2009-01-30

my 69 beaumont custom 8 cyl  production is 4177,6 cyl cars a usually less i have found ,but the custom 2 door hardtop was a very popular model,the most popular,the same as the malibu was to the chevelle

13537 6cyl

14,226

13637 8 cyl

275,334

heres the us production for the 69 malibu 2 door hrdtp (shares the same trim level)
66 times as many malibus than beaumont figures(4177) of the same model line

275,334 8 cyl malibus
yet they only made 14,226 6 cyl cars of that trim level

-- Edited by 68sd at 22:54, 2009-01-30

-- Edited by 68sd at 23:16, 2009-01-30

Acording to the information so far posted on the production figures there is a total
12982 cars produced total ,and 8950 cars of different models acounted for that leaves 4032 cars divided among 14 more different models.  Should be interesting to see how that amount divides between them.

Ian 

if you do the math thats 215 cars i think,i doubt its that low but they onlt made 12 thousand plus beaumonts that year and 73637 took up 4177 of them

the 69 deluxe production numbers is only 3 and a half times as many so who knows? if we use this as  a rule of thought it would be 1200 cars,but i think 6 cyls were more common in deluxes because they were a cheaper car ,and alot more customs were 8 cyls

73337 Beaumont Deluxe 6 cyl Two door hardtop ( 715 produced)

73437 Beaumont Deluxe 8 cyl Two door hardtop (2471 produced

-- Edited by 68sd at 23:32, 2009-01-30

-- Edited by 68sd at 23:39, 2009-01-30