ABC123 wrote:

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Please, keep us updated.

These projects are worth it when they ate done.

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 No worries I will. I still hope to get to the point of being able to drive the car for the first time every. It wasn't when I bought it and I wouldn't  put any money in it just to drive a lame inline six.

Just saw your post on the GP (it IS a GP right). Pretty impressive too. Congrats!

Anytime a new member with a Beaumont from Chile shows up, our eyes widen!

Welcome Claudio.

Well what can I say guys... I just made a finding worth every penny, every headache, every worry with my Beaumont which I've not been able to drive since I bought it...

Some background. I don't how it works in Canada but at least in the US, you can choose what your rear license plate says. Here in Chile it's so much more different. You can't choose what your rear license plate says and both front and rear plates must have the same letters and numbers. Also, you can't decide what the letters or the numbers will be, that is just determined by the transit department. Finally, the license plates STAY ON THE CAR... no matter who the owner is. They are, in a certain sense, the car's ID for life.

Now how cool is this. The license plate of my Acadian... IS ACTUALLY "CP 1606"

CP

CP

Is this like a sign from heaven or something? Or am I just too freaking lucky to own an Acadian Beaumont which's license plate is actually short for "Canadian Poncho"... HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

-- Edited by Beau_SD_65 on Sunday 10th of May 2020 09:13:21 PM

Sooooo... where were we? Oh yeah. The body sits on the sandblasted and painted frame along with the engine and transmission, right? Oh god, this is almost a year ago... or better, OVER a year ago... with pandemic and all that on top of it.

So anyway, progress has been quite slower than intended by the owner (me) and the bodyshop guys but... progress has still been made. This post will be the first half of the year that has gone by so feel free to comment/ask/trash/etc. me. Hahaha.

The new hood had to be modified slightly to go on, due to that it's a Chevelle hood, so the holes for the chevelle molding were blocked off, and also the holes for the Chevrolet letters. The complete front end of the body was also squared off and here's the result.

The interior got peeled off too and I imported an original '65 Acadian Beaumont radio from a fella that had some for sale on ebay. I just had to present the radio in there just to take a picture of it and kinda feel that the car was getting back it's identity. 

No idea yet if the radio actually works but I guess I'll find that out when I install the wiring. 

The driver's side driprail had to be replaced/redone 'cause it was all cracky and rusted. The rear-window-to-trunk-lid panel reinforcement was also shot so they had to fabricate a new reinforcement. The panel itself was ok but both side ends had to be redone as well.

The paint rests had to be sanded down to get to the bare metal so that a wash primer could be applied to prevent rust from reappearing from the metal through the primer. 

So this next picture is before the master fabricator made his ways with the panel

Pretty ugly huh? But I was most impressed with the result of this gentelman's expertise.

So finally the car got some primer on and the time felt right in order to make a decission, one of the most fun ones but also one of the quite expensive ones. 

Those ugly steelies had to go and I had to meet a decission on what wheels the card would get. From some images I had searched on the interwebs I had already decided that I would NOT put on 15 inch wheels but a bigger one instead in order to make the car look like a little bit "stealthier" (is that even all right?). So I figured a 17 inch wheel would make the wheel wells look full-er but I couldn't make my mind up on what rims would look best. We have an AmericanRacing Wheels importer here in the city so I went down there and asked the guy what 17 inch options he had. Unluckily, he would just have two options so let's see what the public's opinion would be. Let me know which of the following two rims you guys would think look better on a '65 Beaumont. I'll post some more pictures of what the car finally looked like, later. 

(for those of you you see the tag on the wheels, the width is not important at this time, nor is the bolt pattern)