My 67 SD convertible's roots

butterNUT SD rag · Addicted!

My 67 SD convertible's roots

cdnpont · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

You have a gem of a car, that gets more polished the more you find out.
Priceless pictures...
Imagine, fender flares and sidepipes...man, the 70's!
Does it still have a 396?

Good luck with the journey. And welcome to CP!

Cheers, Mark

03cts sport · Uber Guru

I'm speechless. It sounds like it's now in the right hands....

ga · Addicted!

pre 73 info is very hard as the mto changed that year to our current
plate to owner system, so the likely that when the VIN # will appear in the system
the picture shows a 73 plate that appears to be new and likely is attache
to the record of the guy u spoke with, your best bet will be if a plate was attached
to the car when he got the car, maybe he wrote it down, theres a picture??
because even though the old system had the plates travel with the car, the
mto attached many of those old plates to the onwers around the time of the
change, what i mean is in the mto system, the pre 73 plate my still be linked to
the pre 73 owner. this is why when u want to attach year of make plates to your car ie 67 plates on your 67 car the mto must check, as many are still in the system as no longer in use but attached to mr. X. my friend located her dads 69 chevelle
through this manner she was going in the other direction looking for the car not the owner, but it had been sold before the 73 change over, and the records are not straight forward, the car was still close by and painted another car, but she found it

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Wow! That's amazing. Welcome to the site.

Todd

68sd · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

thats very cool ,like the pictures,looks mean.

finding old picures intrigues me ,always wonder were old cars end up?
kinda why i believe in the registry,maybe someone will recognize one of their old cars on here and come up with some old pictures?
there can only be so many 67SDrags?
alwayw wonderr about Willies 67 SD rag sold new at London Motor Products in April of 67 Pewter with black guts,then painted Butternut Yellow ,then Blue ,then Blue again then left for dead without the motor in a wrecking yard,only to be rescued by wes.
i wonder who owned such a rare and valuable car and just scrapped it,

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

That first shot is awesome. Flares and sidepipes are da'bomb

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

I love the flares and side pipes are you restoring it to the 70's look?

sixtywagon · Uber Guru

That second pic looks like its beside where my Grandfather used to live. Lake Street in Peterborough?

67BBSD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

I love old pics-When I purchased Ian Smith's 1967 SD 396/350 4-speed he let me go through the family photo albumn-I got pics with a boat on the roof and a hardtop trailer being towed-also a pic of his then girlfriend sitting/laying on the hood-somehow through the years and different owners that documentation was missing by the tim Mark got the car-sad

gparis7 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Those were some hideous period mods, but good that the car survived, you have some of its history and you are bringing it back to its former glory.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Love those early pics!

Quite the story, it's neat that you know that much about it.

Is that car already in the registry here?

butterNUT SD rag · Addicted!

427carl wrote:

I love the flares and side pipes are you restoring it to the 70's look?

Tempting... but probably not because there aren't enough preserved exampes of these around.
Yes, the car has recently been added to the registry.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I think I found it in the registry.

It is listed as delivery date of Jan 6th? Do you happen to know the build date of it, off the cowl tag?

Fred (68SD) knows why I'm asking. Still looking for one built after Nov 25th, before Dec 6th.

Ghost Post · Poncho Master!

sixtywagon wrote:

That second pic looks like its beside where my Grandfather used to live. Lake Street in Peterborough?

Wow you're good Carl!.
The N. side of Lake Street buildings were my first thought too and I blew by on the way back from my lad's hockey last night to check but it appears to be a no..
It may be London St. on the S. side between George and Water...I'll look there also a few other locations that are possibles too..

I got your email Helmet and for sure that's the car I remember here in town..
I've mentioned this car here and on other sites in years past and am totally amazed it's shown up and still exists!.
As I'd mentioned before it had the flares and a custom rear window...I was thinking the window was a Chevy bowtie but it appears in the pics it may be a diamond shape?.
I remember doing a walk around it early one morning on Dalhousie St. in the late 70's/early 80' after leaving some sweetheart's place...there was a one year only '71 Charger body SuperBee AirGrabber car across the street I was looking at too..
I think the last time I saw the Beaumont was late 80's/early 90's in the subdivision S/E of River Rd. South...Sydenham Rd. maybe?.

-- Edited by Ghost Post on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 08:51:45 AM

68sd · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Ghost Post wrote:

sixtywagon wrote:

That second pic looks like its beside where my Grandfather used to live. Lake Street in Peterborough?
Wow you're good Carl!.
The N. side of Lake Street buildings were my first thought too and I blew by on the way back from my lad's hockey last night to check but it appears to be a no..
It may be London St. on the S. side between George and Water...I'll look there also a few other locations that are possibles too..

I got your email Helmet and for sure that's the car I remember here in town..
I've mentioned this car here and on other sites in years past and am totally amazed it's shown up and still exists!.
As I'd mentioned before it had the flares and a custom rear window...I was thinking the window was a Chevy bowtie but it appears in the pics it may be a diamond shape?.
I remember doing a walk around it early one morning on Dalhousie St. in the late 70's/early 80' after leaving some sweetheart's place...there was a one year only '71 Charger body SuperBee AirGrabber car across the street I was looking at too..
I think the last time I saw the Beaumont was late 80's/early 90's in the subdivision S/E of River Rd. South...Sydenham Rd. maybe?.

-- Edited by Ghost Post on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 08:51:45 AM

i think your right on the location,those houses look like the style around water street just west of george,i go to a record shop just east of there?

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

ga wrote:

pre 73 info is very hard as the mto changed that year to our current
plate to owner system, so the likely that when the VIN # will appear in the system
the picture shows a 73 plate that appears to be new and likely is attache
to the record of the guy u spoke with, your best bet will be if a plate was attached
to the car when he got the car, maybe he wrote it down, theres a picture??
because even though the old system had the plates travel with the car, the
mto attached many of those old plates to the onwers around the time of the
change, what i mean is in the mto system, the pre 73 plate my still be linked to
the pre 73 owner. this is why when u want to attach year of make plates to your car ie 67 plates on your 67 car the mto must check, as many are still in the system as no longer in use but attached to mr. X. my friend located her dads 69 chevelle
through this manner she was going in the other direction looking for the car not the owner, but it had been sold before the 73 change over, and the records are not straight forward, the car was still close by and painted another car, but she found it

True enough about the plates and registration changing in 1973. Prior to that, cars in Ontario got new plates EVERY YEAR! they would alternate between dark blue with white numbering one year, then switch to white with blue lettering the next. It was back and for like that for a long time. 1965 was blue, as was 1967, 1969 & 1971. The alternate years were white, such as 1966, 1968, 1970 and 1972. in 1973 they stayed white with blue, then they began issuing stickers to place on the plates at renewal time. I seem to recall MTO still issuing plates with 1973 on them well into the late 1970s.

Hey butternutSDrag, thanks for keeping another Sport Deluxe convertible alive! You are lucky to be able to trace the history back as far as you did.

cheetah 427 · Poncho Master!

i was biding on that car when it was on ebay , i was the second highest bidder, :(