There is a discussion that just started on Team Chevelle about the question we all love, Pontiac or not???? The guy shows a picture on a 69 Beaumont dash with Pontiac on the pad and Beaumont on the glove box lid. My quess it that someone swapped the dash at some time. What's your opinion? See the link below for the discussion. James
Mine is the same as Freds , no pontiac emblem on mine, The script does not look correct to me for 69 time period.. Any one have pics of the export cars dash. What do they look like.
That PONTIAC is identical to the script used in my 1973, it is not 80's imo. If it was 80's are we suggesting the pad was made in the 80's with that script embossed in there? Seems highly unlikely doesn't it? Could it be service replacement ?
no Beaumont ever came with PONTIAC inscribed on it anywhere, except only 1 thing. Thats the AM/FM radio, the slide bar says PONTIAC. They used the LeMans AM/FM as not many Canadians wanted to spend the extra bux, and GM didnt want to tool a new part for such low numbers. Toronto got their first FM radio station in 65, Vancouver 67
Good Morning folks. I am the person that posted those pictures at Team Chevelle and I can give you a bit of history on this car. I have not yet found out if it was bought here, or brought here but Port Hardy is a small community of around 5000. Several old car enthusiasts remember this car when it was brand new. The original owner drove it for several years and passed it down to his son. I met the son (Kevin)when he worked next door to my job. Kevin thrashed the car and sold it to a friend that took the engine out and used it in an oval track car and then the body sat in a small field for several years. It was then aquired by Rob Thompson at Robs custom paint. ( http://robscustompaintshop.com/ ) Rob was thinking about restoring it but unfotunatly the frame and floors were too far gone from sitting in tall wet grass. Incidently, he has a lot of the parts from this car if anyone is interested. So, According to Kevin, his dad never replaced the dash. Nor did he and the car sat from then on. Did the car have a wiring fire when it was brand new on the dealers lot? Who knows, but all indications are that this dash is original to this car. I have also seached the web for Lemans dashes, Tempest, GTO, and none of them have Pontiac in the dash where this one is. So even if this dash did come from a donor car, What the heck did it come from? Strange things used to happen back them. Chevelles with Buick Interiors etc....... You Lemans lovers check out the Lemans on Robs web site. He did a complete frame off on this car and it is stunning!
I went over to ultimategto.com and scanned the photos from 1968 to 1972, there are enough dash pad shots there. Only saw the 1972 LeMans and GTO with that dash pad with embossed logo in it. BTW 68 is a lot differrent and 69-72 look to be interchangeable. So I am going to stick with my inital idea - Service replacement.
This makes sense too since 1972 is the last year of production this would be the last part available as a service replacement and it would be offered as the replacement part for all Pontiac A bodies 69-72.
Did you see a photo of a 1970 Tempest with that dash pad Pete, if so can you post it or let us know where it is. If it is a 1970 Tempest pad I have an other idea.
From my research on ultimategto.com it looks like a 1972 part only which also explains my first post saying script is identical to my 73 LeMans, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt it is not a 1980's logo.
If a photo of this pad shows up on a 70 Tempest I'd say this Beaumomt is a late run 69 just before the switch to 70 Tempests otherwise I'm sticking with 69-72 Pontiac A Body Service Replacement part.
I would agree with Ray's analysis. If one needed a replacement dash pad some time in the future, it is doubtful there would specific Beaumont parts available. The Lemans one would be used and I'm sure in the parts book some where there would be a notation "superceded by".
As to an extremely late 69 build? It would be interesting to know if this vehicle qualifies so getting the build date off the data plate would be helpful. I wouldn't place too much reliance on the previous owners' recollections, particularly if you can't categorically document the owners from the date the car was first delivered.
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I think you may have missunderstood me. Kevin's dad was the original owner. We just don't know if it was bought at this local dealership or if he bought it out of town and brought it here. I will get the tag numbers
