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If you have been following some of my 1/24th scale model car builds,   one of my next projects in the near future will be a 1969 Beaumont SD396.

Have we ever seen or documented a 2dr POST sedan SD396?  because according to the brochure you could order a 2dr post coupe(sedan) or a 2dr HT coupe. 
 Yes, I have VVS docs for one SD-396 post car.

also,  is the upholstery pattern the same as the base model "Beaumont"  with a cloth bench seat being standard,  according to the brochure it should be,(but you could order all vinyl in black only).
Correct, vinyl and cloth you could get black, blue or green, the all vinyl option was black only.

I gotta build a totally "out there"  scale version but still keep it accurate to something that could have been ordered.  So im thinking a 2dr POST SD396 with a TH350(why??) and some super crazy but order-able color combination.  like Espresso brown w/green interior.  or  how about Turquoise w/saddle brown interior(look it up, they exist i think, but could you order them on a SD396 is the question.
No TH350 option for the SD cars. 

Does anyone have the chart for recommended color schemes(int/ext combos) and 2tone combos.  it would have come in a GM VVS documentation package for any 69 Beaumont
I don't see why you couldn't order any color, upper and lower but would be limited to the interior color choices. Remember the Mayfair Mayze, white top and red interior custom?

-- Edited by beaumontguru on Thursday 26th of December 2024 06:33:57 PM

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While I haven't seen a 2-door post '69 Beaumont SD-396 in person, I have seen 3 coupes in person. I do have a picture somewhere on an old drive with a black '69 SD post. It had the B90 chrome window frames and the correct white striping. Documents show it was an MC1 h.d. 3-speed, had the 14x6 Rally Wheels * with F70-14 white-letters tires. It had a factory rear antenna and also may have had the NC8 chambered exhaust.

GM Canada seemed to offer different 2-tones than in the U.S. I can remember from more than 50 years ago a '69 Biscayne 2-door driven by a little old lady in my hometown Ancaster. It was Cortez Silver with a factory Burgundy roof & black vinyl interior. It had a 327, wheel covers and black-walls. There was also a mint '69 Impala Custom Coupe near Mohawk College on Hamilton Mountain that was Dover White with factory Burgundy roof & bright red bucket seat interior. 327 TH350 car.


In town there was also a '69 Impala Sport Coupe 6-cylinder in Frost Green with Dover White roof, medium green interior. You could do that on an SD-396 post coupe handily, but I don't think it would look sharp. Maybe it would, you never know until you build it.

One 1969 2-tone that might look really nice would be Espresso Brown with a Champagne 2-tone. I've seen it on a few cars, most with black interior and one with dark green interior (the Beaumont Deluxe, including SD offered medium green). Black interior would look best but would hide details on a scale model. I'd skip the chrome window frames on that combo.

1969 marked the year you could start getting vinyl tops on base series cars, and also on the bodies with window frames, the sedans and "posts" if you will. I've seen a '69 Chevelle 300 Deluxe "post" that was Frost Green with a factory black vinyl roof cover, B90 chrome window frames and medium green interior. It looked good. 1968 was the year greens took off in popularity and by 1969 Frost Green was ubiquitous.

Verdoro Green was one colour that seemed to not be generally shared among GM Canada divisions.

There MUST have been a list of recommended and allowable colour combos available for prospective customers. Generally I would use the U.S. Chevelle charts, but the Canadian 2-tone sightings combined with other documented cars throws that out the window.

* As ridiculous as it sounds, the 1969 Beaumont Rally Wheels were 14x6 tops, even on the SD with optional F41. Meanwhile the Chevelle SS 396, Acadian SS 350 & Nova SS, Camaro SS plus most of the COPO performance cars used 14x7 wheels. Either steelies or the Magnum-like "Sport" wheel. I guess GM Canada was really pushing the cheap wheels thing with the SD, having to compete with the Road Runner & Super Bee, plus the Torino Cobra. Perhaps that and the fact that Beaumont flat caps would look buried in a 14x7 Rally Wheel.

beaumontguru wrote:

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Thanks for the info brad!

yes i was thinking of that puerto rico mayfair maize car too,  its certainly a unique one

I guess i typo'd the TH350,   I think you the automatic was still avail, but a TH400?

I wont probe you for all the details about that post car you have the VVS for, but just out of curiosity, what was the color combo?  or at the very least, was it an uncommon combo?, or the usual red with a black interior

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  The color of the post car is 52, Matador Red, 752 trim (black vinyl), not uncommon. This car was a 325HP car with HD 3 speed trans. Base engine and trans, no chambered exhaust on this one.
 I do have docs for another red car with a black top. With limited interior color choices there may be some odd combinations. I parted out a Mayfair Mayze on dark green Custom 20 years ago which I thought was odd.

Transmission options were HD Muncie 3 speed, M20 Muncie 4 speed or the TH400 automatic. 68 was the last year you could still option the 2 speed PG in a SD. 

I saw the 69 post car here in Manitoba-it was black at the time but an original red car with the door bright trim.It was a car that literally needed everything-super rusty.Guy told us it was a race car-I thought to myself maybe on the wet salty roads it was LOL.It was a bench 3 or 4 speed cannot remember exactly.But I went to look at it because it was for sale out west of Winnipeg

Two tone color combinations for Beaumonts followed the Pontiac paint schemes. Chevelle stuff web site has the available two tone combinations listed for chevelles. Pontiac was more generous with roof color options. For example, a 1969 Malibu with paint code 55 (azure turquoise), the only painted roof color was white. A 1969 Beaumont with the same paint; (55) could have a white, OR black painted roof. A black Beaumont could potentially have had a white, blue, light green, or silver roof. I have not come across a black Beaumont with blue, green or silver roof. I have seen a turquoise Beaumont with a black roof. Maybe there was the same combinations as Chevelle, but Beaumont could maybe have black or white on any color car. 
Same situation for impala. I know a turquoise 1969 impala could only have a white painted top. There is a member here with a turquoise 1969 2+2 that has a black painted top. My cousin owned a gold 1969 2+2 that had a black painted top. 

 

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Great info for Dave, this looks like the info he was looking for. Thanks for sharing

Shrike wrote:

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Two tone color combinations for Beaumonts followed the Pontiac paint schemes. Chevelle stuff web site has the available two tone combinations listed for chevelles. Pontiac was more generous with roof color options. For example, a 1969 Malibu with paint code 55 (azure turquoise), the only painted roof color was white. A 1969 Beaumont with the same paint; (55) could have a white, OR black painted roof. A black Beaumont could potentially have had a white, blue, light green, or silver roof. I have not come across a black Beaumont with blue, green or silver roof. I have seen a turquoise Beaumont with a black roof. Maybe there was the same combinations as Chevelle, but Beaumont could maybe have black or white on any color car. 
Same situation for impala. I know a turquoise 1969 impala could only have a white painted top. There is a member here with a turquoise 1969 2+2 that has a black painted top. My cousin owned a gold 1969 2+2 that had a black painted top. 

 

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Wow,  thanks for all the comments guys!   what a great thread, and a great refresher course on 69 SD cars.   You guys covered all the details, and Cam has some cool combos.  Guess i have lots of choices to make before i start building.  Stay tuned.

That is interesting to see such limited color choices(especially interior colors) for the 300 dlx models,   malibus had so many more choices!

and with the Sport Deluxe being based on a 300dlx,   i would think it followed suit.

I have more interior question.   i think they all would have the vinyl floor mat?  and are these interior pics showing the proper door panels and seat pattern?  Did the beaumont dlx and 300 dlx share the door panel patterns too?

I see that some of the black interiors have all vinyl and some have black cloth insert, to my knowledge the black was the only vinyl insert color, all others were cloth

also,  in my GREEN pictures,  the one seat has the center stripes in white, and the other has in dark green,  Im thinking the WHITE center stripes are correct since both the blue and black interiors have white stripes.

-- Edited by beaumontguru on Sunday 29th of December 2024 09:12:17 AM

I concur with Shrike. The SD-396 option (Z25) was offered only on the 73427 & 73437 models. Those models are the basic "Deluxe" series that correspond to the Chevelle 300 Deluxe.

The SD-396 competed with the Road Runner & Super Bee. If you wanted more, GM Canada started selling the GTO mainstream for 1969. That is why the SD was offered on only the base series cars in 1969.


Starting with 1966 models, the base Beaumont used base Chevelle interior complete (except for the dash). Meanwhile the Beaumont Custom & Sport Deluxe in '66 used a combination of Chevrolet seats & Pontiac door panels. Starting 1967, Beaumonts in all series shared the corresponding Chevelle interior upholstery.

The 1969 SD-396 offered cloth & vinyl in black (751), med blue (760) or med green (786); plus all-vinyl in black (752).



Hey Beaumontguru, for your model I was thinking if you wanted to do something other than black inside, consider Liberty Blue (dark) with med blue interior with white SD stripes, or try Midnight Green with med green interior & white SD stripes. Or try Starlight Black with blue interior. It is critical you get the shades right, especially on a shaded car with blues or greens either on the vinyl top of the interior, because GM did. If you get them wrong they may clash.

Ooooh,  thats cool.   post car with the bright mouldings!!

for my next question,   what does a 69 SD car have for rear "SD" emblems or decals?    also  what does the aircleaner look like and what decal on the lid?

Here: December 2012 Feature Car

So very cool. With 3D printing and the new metal forming technique, the future is bright for GM of Canada lovers