jmont64 wrote:

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Congratatulations and thanks for sharing your story. It is always special for me when I hear the stories when people have been able to keep their cars for many years and especially with yours basically being a survivor. The history of your car is a nice bonus besides. Great looking car.

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Some one said "they are only original once" It's your choice of course, but the hobby benefits by the preservation of original examples as does your wallet! I would be proud to own this example. Congratulations.

Congratulations neighbour        

Nice way to start the year!!   (looking at your car for 30 days)

Interesting story, with car being a SD 396, with 3 speed and bench seat....  

As usual the car, is like its owner(s)    Even nicer in person....  

to a nice guy and a nice car;  way to go !

Dale @ NOS    a poncho supporter

Congratulations, Bernie. I, too, enjoyed your story. Your SD looks awesome!

Thanks for sharing your story Bernie Coffhy and to Todd for a sweet monthly pick (as always)...fabulous way to start the new year.
So that's were that nice S/D went:

I remember Ross Clarke very well and drove to his home in Breslau, Ont a few times (to buy stuff) in the early-mid 1980's. One day he called me up and I bought his AZ S/S hoods...I sure appreciated that phone call.

Swell guy (we became friends) and he really knew his Beaumont's. Like a kid in a candy store, I enjoyed touring his basement parts stash and the inside of his yellow school bus (parked at the rear of his property)...such a rush, 3 decades ago. On the drive to his place, wife and I stop to buy a dozen lemon meringue tarts at a local bakery, we ate 2 treats and left the other 10 on the back seat floor of our daily driver, a 1967 Beaumont Custom (green, 6 cylinder hardtop). After a hour of dealing, walk back from the school bus and start to drive home. Feeling a little hungry, looked for the home made tarts, all gone...WTH.  Turns out, our Doberman Tanya had ate all 10 tarts (when Dad was preoccupied buying '67 parts). While the smart dog had hid all the wrapping paper trace evidence, under my drivers front bench seat track...clever girl, all we could do is LOL.

Magazines:

- I got that Classic Sixties magazine, bought it off the news strand, just for the Beaumont color photos and write-up
- your car was also featured around Oct or Nov/1983 or '84 in the monthly issue of NCOA, another great article

I remember him wanting to switch transmission, or something - remove 4 speed, as wife preferred an automatic (but finally decided to sell muscle car instead)...just going off memory here.

- I knew he was selling it and saw it probably at 1987 Fall Barrie Flea Market, wearing a For Sale sign on the windshield...but out of my $$ league.
- that night, instead of passed him on the 401, heading home...I followed him into a truck stop...he was okay, limping the S/D home with exhaust problems (brew muffler, broken tail pipe or clamp?)
 
Ross's main reason for selling his 1967 S/D, back in the late 1980's - he didn't have a 3 car heated garage / he sure loved that original big block Beaumont, but one car needed to find a new home:

He had special ordered and took delivery of a brand new, fully loaded 1987 Buick Grand National GNX (1 of 547 ever produced), V6 would be easy to drive & have A/C, for family outings with modern creature comforts.

Last time I visited Ross, his 1987 GNX was parked in his geo-thermal heated garage (owner designed & installed home heating system), as the house basement partial end wall corner was left open at the inside steps to the garage floor, providing practically free heat inside garage. He also taught night school at Conestoga College in heat exchangers or land surveying (?), a technically smart man of many talents...and fun to chat with, about the car hobby and 1966-67 Beaumont's in general.
- I forget exactly if this '67 S/D was parked beside the GNX that last day (I visited) or his yellow 1970 Olds 442 W31 ram air (really rare/mint convertible)...but one car, was in the driveway, I guessing the Beaumont.

Congrats Bernie, for preserving it and enjoying for decades...much to nice for ever needing a frame-off, from what I recall...your son is one lucky man.

1 of 451 Beaumont S/D - there is a good reason, very few 1967 good ones come up for sale...most every owner has a real life-long passion, for them.

BTW - my Marina blue (original paint) 1967 Custom, 283-V8 with strato buckets/console...also came from LMP in London, ON.
- London Motor Products (Richmond St. area, if I recall) and East Town Chev/Olds (on Dundas St. across from Ponderosa Steak House) sold a lot of muscle cars, in their day

I love it! Great colour, great wheels, and a great story behind it. It is funny that it was ordered so stripped, I mean bench seat, standard HD 3-speed, standard small hubcaps, but it came with power conventional drum brakes. I have heard of several other Canadian 67 Chevelles ordered in such a way.

It was originally Verde Green, a Canada-only colour. My Oshawa-built 67 Chevelle is also in that J-code Verde Green.

I hope your son can resist planting the throttle on that car because a Saginaw will not hold up with that kind of torque. Being a manual trans L35 car means it would have come with a 3.31 rear axle.

Yet another great monthly feature car.