It's my pleasure to feature Henry Schulz's 1962 Acadian Beaumont station wagon for February. Henry bought the Acadian back in 2012 and performed a number of tasteful mods both improving the car's appearance as well as driveability. Take a good look at Henry's wagon. With so few produced you will likely not see another for a long time! Henry tells us more:

"I first saw my car advertised on Auto Trader in 2012. As I kept looking at different cars I always seemed to come back to the ad for this wagon. And the more it appealed to me the more I wanted to make contact with the owner. I did make contact finally but it was with the mother of the owner. The owner had passed away (about 4 years earlier) and had willed the car to her. It was in her garage for that time. The car was just outside of Edmonton Alberta and I am in Vernon BC.

After a few back and forth conversations I made the deal and a buddy and myself took my car hauler to go get it. Now at the time I also had my 63 Beaumont convertible and I thought do I really need another car? Well the rest is history. I have done a lot of work on the car since including the silver paint to the top half of the car. I did the silver because the front of the hood had quite a few stone chips, and that bothered me. It was a more reasonable fix than doing the entire car.

The car was basically original accept for the motor and tranny. There is also a pin stripe separating the two colours. The blue section  was the complete car colour when I first bought it, estimated to be painted in the early 80's. Only 626 of these wagons were produced. It was originally equipped with 194 ci 6 cyl 120 HP engine and 4 bolt 13 inch wheels and tires.

The engine is now a 350 L-82 bored 40 over with 10.5 KB pistons, World Sportsman 202 Dart heads, and a Crane Saturday Night Special cam. Transmission is a TH350 with a 2500 stall convertor. I installed a CPP mini subframe kit (tubular upper and lower control arms) in 2016. In 2017 I installed CPP power steering and front disc brakes. It has 2.5" cross flow exhaust. 

I know the previous owner had taken the car to Phoenix and there was a Phoenix license plate of the car when I bought it. I did mail the plate to his mother for her to have. I have a lot of interest from people during the car shows and enjoy discussing with them on the rarity of this car."