Thought I'd post this for any members that haven't discovered The Old Car Manual Project. They have a good selection of Canadian Pontiac brochures to view at this link:
Just scroll through the pages and you will find brochures for: '48, '58, '61, '63, '66, '67, '69, '76 and '78 full size Pontiacs, plus '62 - '65 Acadian, '66 - '69 Beaumont, '70 Lemans and Tempest, and '73 Astre.
Thought I'd post this for any members that haven't discovered The Old Car Manual Project. They have a good selection of Canadian Pontiac brochures to view at this link:
Just scroll through the pages and you will find brochures for: '48, '58, '61, '63, '66, '67, '69, '76 and '78 full size Pontiacs, plus '62 - '65 Acadian, '66 - '69 Beaumont, '70 Lemans and Tempest, and '73 Astre.
Happy browsing!
Thank you MC for the Link I did some looking around. I have some of those Acadian brochures myself.
Here are the results from several searchs 65 Acadian = 65 Acadian Beaumont and Canso and no Pontiacs 65 Pontiac = 65 Pontiacs and no Acadians or Beaumonts 65 Pontiac Acadian = No results 65 Pontiac Beaumont = No results
I'm just happy that they chose to include brochures for these wonderfully unique Canadian GM products. I'm hoping somebody will send them scans for '59 and '60 Canadian Pontiac brochures, as these are among my favourites.
Y'know, for years I was confused anytime somebody mentioned about a '64 or '65 Beaumont that they once had or knew somebody that had one, etc. and they called it an Acadian Beaumont. I thought "hmmm... I thought Acadians were the Nova based ones"... I had always been into the '68 '69s that were just Beaumonts, and Acadians were just Acadians... (though admittedly I still can't bring myself to not think of them as Pontiacs... too many old habits, I guess).
It's only been recently that I'm starting to get it all straightened out in my head... not there yet, but maybe someday? I can see why there remains some confusion among enthusiasts looking back at these cars 40-some years later. Maybe some day we'll all get on the same page!
Y'know, for years I was confused anytime somebody mentioned about a '64 or '65 Beaumont that they once had or knew somebody that had one, etc. and they called it an Acadian Beaumont. I thought "hmmm... I thought Acadians were the Nova based ones"... I had always been into the '68 '69s that were just Beaumonts, and Acadians were just Acadians... (though admittedly I still can't bring myself to not think of them as Pontiacs... too many old habits, I guess).
Now you can stop being confused and believe what they said when they called it a Acadian Beaumont and stop thinking of them as Pontiacs.
Now you can stop being confused and believe what they said when they called it a Acadian Beaumont and stop thinking of them as Pontiacs.
Ha Ha! I'm taking middle ground here. I now understand why they call the early ones Acadian Beaumonts and the later ones just Beaumonts.
However, I'll always think of them all as Pontiacs, even if the Pontiac name isn't on them. Too much Pontiac styling and marketing influence here for me to think otherwise (sorry). Guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks!
But at least I won't go to an owner and say "hey, nice Pontiac!"... unless he tells me it's a Pontiac first........
