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Someone asked me if 67 Beaumonts came stock with BB hoods and I couldn't answer.  

I know 1966 Beaumonts did not get the BB hood regardless of whether it was an SD, a BB or both.  But I am not sure about 1967's.  I've seen many that have the BB hood, and I am about 90% sure the 67's did come with BB hoods, but I'm not positive.  Tried looking for some sales brochures, but couldn't see one that showed a BB hood.

 

So ... Did GM install BB hoods on 1967 Beaumonts?



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So ... Did GM install BB hoods on 1967 Beaumonts?

^^ Great question Wes, one I often pondered before joining CP - I did a lot of archive reading here, and I think the answer is No & Yes.

Let me explain, hopefully as best as I can:
- like the 67 Beaumont Custom, early Sport Deluxe cars (September-December 1966 production) had a VIN. # starting in 736
- some of these 736 SD's did have SBC engines and all off which equaled flat hoods

VIN. #738 was specific for the 396-v8 only SD's / January on production or from mid December...small blocks N/A now.
- all these BB's had domed hoods, borrowed from the S/S

I have the GM of Canada Sales Brochures for 1967 Beaumont - printed before cars hit show room floors...probably spring print date

- when early SD's didn't have a separate VIN #


My 1967 Sport Deluxe VIN. starting with #738, has a BB-louvered hood, which I believe to be original.

...LARRY

 



-- Edited by Beaumont67SD on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 11:43:27 PM

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Early Sports Optioned cars had both sbc and BBC engine options with a flat hood, and as per above once GM switched to the 738vin SD, it was exclusively a BBC car with domed hood.

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Curious - the early #736 Sport Deluxe cars / did any 1967 SD's come with the 6 cylinder engine, or only v8 ?

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I had an original 67 BB 396 Beaumont SD-it had a big block hood-all the ones I knew of in the 70's that were real BB's had them too

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I have an (October 24th 1966) #736VIN  L34/BB car.  It rolled out of Oshawa with a fat hood & wire wheel hub caps! biggrin



-- Edited by jlysholm on Tuesday 9th of August 2016 03:55:43 AM

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Beaumont67SD wrote:

Curious - the early #736 Sport Deluxe cars / did any 1967 SD's come with the 6 cylinder engine, or only v8 ?

 I was surprised to hear it, but apparently yes... There was at least one documented one, talked about here a few years ago, I recall. Also im sure there were very few L34 736 vin sport option cars... We don't have actual production figures, but with GMVVS documents, someone could actually tally them up...probably less than a couple couple hundred total, so maybe a few dozen convertibles, then probably less than 10% of that we're BBC optioned, most were probably 283/pg cars. These are just pure speculative numbers...

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Beaumont67SD wrote:

Curious - the early #736 Sport Deluxe cars / did any 1967 SD's come with the 6 cylinder engine, or only v8 ?

 shows 2 #735 in the registry



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I couldn't find any in there? Which date did you find one? ....maybe it was 66 I was thinking of?

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Jan. 6 / Feb. 17



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