I'm going through some old pictures right now. Some black and white. I'll post when I locate them. It was a 396 car, m20. Bought new from City Buick. Randy Heise ordered for me (family friend). Some site people say they never built one but here it is. Even came with the wider 14" rims. I still have these hubcaps. Brian
Unfortunately these are old pictures, black and whites, one colour. The car had a black bench seat so that's why the shifter has a bend, tach was added. On the far left of the grill picture you can see how I opened up beside the headlights in the corner to mount the tubes right and left for the ram air hoses that ran into a double snorkel air cleaner, worked great. The colour shot is my son in Florida 1969, the signs below the V8 emblems read RAM AIR. Red lines and yes it has snow tires on it cause we always went there in the winter so they stayed on the car. Somewhere I have engine shots still looking. Brian
Unfortunately these are old pictures, black and whites, one colour. The car had a black bench seat so that's why the shifter has a bend, tach was added. On the far left of the grill picture you can see how I opened up beside the headlights in the corner to mount the tubes right and left for the ram air hoses that ran into a double snorkel air cleaner, worked great. The colour shot is my son in Florida 1969, the signs below the V8 emblems read RAM AIR. Red lines and yes it has snow tires on it cause we always went there in the winter so they stayed on the car. Somewhere I have engine shots still looking. Brian
Bill I owned a few Pontiacs and I never thought of saving any documentation, like a lot of people we ordered them had them for a few years, then bought another. I wish there was but I only have some old pictures. Didn't realize how rare my 64cs 409 was or my 67 post car just drove them and had fun.
Brian
CdnGMfan wrote: ............It was originally Verde Green, a Canada-only colour. My Oshawa-built 67 Chevelle is also in that J-code Verde Green.......... ************************************************************************************************************
^^^^ Thanks for the info. CdnGMfan
Pictured below - my first 1967 Beaumont Custom - purchased in 1976, was an original paint Verde Green (Canada-only color),
6 cylinder with only 44,000 miles, powerglide & black bench seat interior.
- I cut all the rust out and made full length door bottoms for it with a chunk of railroad track/C-clamp Vice-Grips and formed it with
a Snap-On #BF604 body hammer (I bought with my summer job wages, purchased 4 decades ago, still my favorite hand tool)
- drivers side needed a Cross-Canada half quarter panel, what a POS flat stamping it turned out to be
- left quarter bottom and half of wheel arch lip was hand made and 19 gauge repair panels were Oxy/Acy brazed on
(I was proud of my brazing repair work, welding complete while keeping warpage to a bare minimum...passenger side still looked straight)
- front fender bottoms were patched along with one front fender on the battery tray side of the car
- less body work on the trunk lid edge was needed
And I spray painted the hardtop in our farm implement garage, after wetting down the concrete floor...got Beaumont on the road, in 1977.
- a London Motor Products car, originally...if I remember correctly
- and the only original paint Verde Green Beaumont, I would ever come across
Was our every day driver for 6 straight years, and the last trip we made was to the 1984 NCOA nations, held that year in Warren MI.
- now with 115,000 miles, finally the harmonic balancer puked on the straight six and the motor was garbage
My first Beaumont always held a spot in my heart, and would spark my enthusiasm into collecting a handful of these V8 Canadian hardtops.
1967 Beaumont parked on family farm, our backyard body shop was in the top left corner of photo (from 1988):
- I often regretted not returning it to the original green or making a full color change.
"Green machine" was stored inside 20 years, and sold 10 years ago - bye bye old friend:
-- Edited by Beaumont67SD on Tuesday 6th of January 2015 12:27:13 AM
I was cleaning up the garage last night...it was -30, but I had the heat on in the garage... Decided to pull the Beaumont out for a quick spin! ...absolutely no traction whatsoever, and with no heater core it was a short and cold ride!
I was cleaning up the garage last night...it was -30, but I had the heat on in the garage... Decided to pull the Beaumont out for a quick spin! ...absolutely no traction whatsoever, and with no heater core it was a short and cold ride!
Good for you!! She won't be a Garage Queen for 2015
This is after a summer of you get what you pay for paint work that has to be redone some time but a friend and i spent two weeks wet sanding and polishing to get it to this point it actually came out pretty good considering what it looked like when i got it back from paint.
This '67 Beaumont SD was an elusive 10 year search, finding it locally in 1987. - red on black w/buckets & console, 396-350HP, M21, 12 bolt-411's, big block hood, factory tachometer...1 of 451 Canadian models produced
The husband street raced the Sport Deluxe for 6 years and his wife took a bank manager job promotion in London. Car was only in Ontario for 2 weeks, when I spotted it. I was driving through St. Thomas on my drive home from work...only 5 blocks, to home. - so if I leave work a minute sooner or one minute later, I would have never found it. I saw the quarter panel louvers and my heart began to pound, and like a maniac, I did a quick turn-around in someones driveway and headed after the 1967, in hot pursuit.
Luckily, I didn't have to run any red lights (LOL) and he pulled into a Mack's convience store. When I walked up to the car, saw the strato buckets, through the back window, yes all the SD trim there, BB hood, 4 gear...very nice, I thought. Owner was already in the store, getting directions from the clerk...his buddy was in the passenger seat. In the trunk was a vacuum clearer...he had just took a carpet cleaning job..and didn't know his way around / and needed a car that was now better on gas.
Owner comes out, and I have him pop the hood...there is the 350 HP mill (w/Holley cast intake) and the driver side chrome valve cover is factory dimpled as used to clear the Nova power brake booster...I am liking what I see. Inside, the buckets had no foam left, with blankets on the springs / but this is a 4 sp console car with Competition Plus shifter, factory tack, two factory under dash switches (one for radio speakers and one for rear defrost)
Even before I bought the SD, I purchased a spare BB hood w/louver (Arizona tin found locally), an extremely rare Beaumont speed warning speedometer (w/ivory ball), both rear SD die cast horizontal trim (one NOS piece), one new front fender eyebrow aluminum trim from GM and an original disk brake setup with PB booster & master cylinder w/proportional valve (from a restored SD, that was smashed head on into a tree...1 of 40 per 1967 production numbers). Plus some USA sheet metal: - picked up one good Chevelle door with full green tinted glass, that came out of a house basement (at TN junk yard) when I was on vacation 20 years ago (I was hopeful of getting an SD sometime, just didn't know when, so I started to collect parts). - 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)
PS - the occupant floor pans, are still in excellent shape (under the carpet, no rust and nice original red factory paint)...SD needs trunk floor, outer wheel wells & rear 1/4's. - last year picked up a NOS driver side rear GM quarter panel...found in a barn since 1983 - and NOS Beaumont rocker panel trim, 1 year Canadian item that differs from Chevelle piece, in paint color
And finally, the 1967 Beaumont Sport Deluxe (originally from Western Canada, SK) - hardtop stored in an insulated garage ever since, after photo was take in 1988: - setting on 14" original Olds 442 Rally II rims with Firestone 721 radial tires - wheels were takeoffs from my green machine, to get through a safety check & drive it the summer of '87 Cosmetic - swapped a nice pair of original strato buckets, rear seat, carpets and steering column out of a 1967 Beaumont Custom parts car. - to spruce up the black interior, and keep it looking original and more respectable
I bought my first 1965 Chevelle 2 door post car (6 cyl. with original Danube dark blue paint) around 1973 - and immediately fell in love with the "A" bodies...when in high school. As a Beaumont hobbiest, I have owned 10 hardtops from the 1967 model year (over the decades)...0.01% of model year production...LOL
My current Chevelle/Beaumont fleet of unrestored 2 door hardtops (all moth-balled in year round/insulated storage, for decades): 1) 1965 Malibu Super Sport, 283-V8 with rare 2 tone blue interior & buckets 2) 1966 Beaumont Custom, 283-V8 original Danube blue paint, bench seat car w/75K original miles 3) 1967 Beaumont Custom, 283-V8 bench seat car, PS, PB 4) 1967 Beaumont Custom, 283-V8 original paint Marina blue & strato bucket seat interior w/65K original miles 5) 1967 Beaumont SD 396, 4 speed (pictured above)
-- Edited by Beaumont67SD on Friday 9th of January 2015 08:06:52 AM
Show how nicely it "sits" (which is perfect) Is the Stratford cruise a little nicer than local events? 
