1967 Beaumont 2 dr custom,ORIGINAL

Blake · Member

1967 Beaumont 2 dr custom,ORIGINAL

Blake · Member

Trying to restore back to original condition.4 plus questions that I need some help with.
1)Does the dual exhaust exit behind the rear tire or straight out the back
2) It has a 4 speed, is the original shifter knob, white , black or chrome and does it have the shift pattern on the knob,
3)The original spare wheel is painted the same as the body butternut yellow, are the wheels on the car supposed to be painted yellow or black
4) are the door knob/lock black or chrome with a black interior?
I look forward to some answers.
Thanks Blake

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

Welcome here Blake.

1) Behind he rear tire

2) White with pattern if it's a bench seat, chrome if it's a console and buckets

Someone else will help with 3 and 4!

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

And yes, I can see it has buckets but thought other people may have the same question.

And if the spare is yellow I would say the other 4 would be too.

There's a number of Beaumont experts here who will be able to answer pretty much any question you have.

Is it a 283 or 327?

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

I've noticed on cars of this vintage that wheel colour is dependent on wheel cover treatment ordered. If a car had standard hub caps the wheels were body colour, if wheel discs they were black, that's my observation after years of crawling around salvage yards and shops but can't say that's 100% the way they were manufactured.

jmont64 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Welcome Blake from the other side of the lake on the city side. Nice to see another Beaumont surfacing in the valley.

GLHS60 · Poncho Master!

73SC wrote:
I've noticed on cars of this vintage that wheel colour is dependent on wheel cover treatment ordered. If a car had standard hub caps the wheels were body colour, if wheel discs they were black, that's my observation after years of crawling around salvage yards and shops but can't say that's 100% the way they were manufactured.

Correct, black wheels were only used on cars with full wheel covers, or wheel discs as they were called back then, with one exception. All others where body color.

Thanks

Randy

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

Welcome from Canada's east coast. You might want to get the GM documents for your car.

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Welcome there Blake sweet looking car can't wait to see the progress !

butterNUT SD rag · Addicted!

Neat car! Is that still the original paint?

Blake · Member

Great, Thanks for the info

Blake · Member

I think it has been painted at some point, kind of flat butternut yellow at this point, I don't even plan to polish it, I will leave it as is until it gets painted down the road.

Blake · Member

Yeh, There was a nice big block at McCurdy last summer and I hope to get mine to a few of the Wed. shows.

Blake · Member

I have a set of the original PO1 option hub caps, I think I will go black on the rims, The only body coloured wheels that I see in pictures are with the dog dish caps.

Blake · Member

I have them, The previous owner, of this is/was a one owner car had purchased the info from Oshawa and he included it when a bought the car last year

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

Blake wrote:
I have a set of the original PO1 option hub caps, I think I will go black on the rims, The only body coloured wheels that I see in pictures are with the dog dish caps.

Yes you'd be right in painting them black, P01 is the wheel disc option not a hub cap. Hub caps are commonly referred to as "dog dish". Its all in the terms one used, Rick and I said the same thing above, only "dog dish" cars got body colour, wheel disc cars got black.

GLHS60 · Poncho Master!

With one exception..

Thanks
Randy

Elroy · Poncho Master!

Welcome to the site, and that's really neat car you have there Blake !

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

Welcome

Paulish · Guru

Hey there!

My Beaumont was originally pretty close to yours.

Mine was butter nut (Love that name) biggrin But with a black vinyl top.

Cheers From Lethbridge Alberta!

long stroke · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Blake, a hardy welcome aboard from Milton, Ontario. What a sweet looking survivor you got there, good luck with the resto and enjoy the ride here on C.P. Cheers. George

2drpost · Uber Guru

nice orig beaumont! pls post more pictures, are those Radar wheels up front?

-- Edited by 2drpost on Tuesday 9th of February 2016 01:07:16 PM

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

They may be.. But I think they are the Simpson Sears copies.. Note the casting between the spokes against the bell..

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Raders.. wheel corp. America,, when Mickey Thompson was co producing Them.

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Just don't damage those side moldings! It has happened way too many times in the past. When these cars get repainted, a molding get damaged and the body shop just chucks them. I am impressed when I see them still attached to the car. They will never reproduce thos things.