1968 Beaumont decode help

Hopes and dreams · Member

1968 Beaumont decode help

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

A51. Bucket seats D55 Console C08 vinyl roof m35 powerglide trany

68 year

73637. Beaumont custom two door sport coupe

os Oshawa body assy plant

795917 body assy number

tr 794. Black interior

1-12-5. build date 1st shift get this mixed up December 5th or

T27. Black vinyl roof

QQ verdoro green

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 on Sunday 23rd of April 2017 12:10:40 AM

Hopes and dreams · Member

Thank you for taking the time to reply just got her back from a bad deal with trying to help someone out by putting them to work on the body big mistake just trying to decide how to finish it now! Oddly like the green! Is there any way to tell what the engine would have been? I would guess it was a 307?

norontcan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

GM Vintage Vehicle Services, for a fee, will tell you all of the above info plus selling dealer, date of build, date of shipment, engine size and number of this model manufactured.
Contact info is elsewhere on this site.

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

Your car is one of 3477 v8 custom hardtops made that year. You would have had a choice of the 307 and two 350's a 255 and 300 hp . Like Ted said GM Vintage Services can give you that information. The 307 would have got the 5/16 Fuel line And I have read on chevelle sites that 350 would have 3/8 fuel lines. May be some one on this site could confirm or defunk this. So check your frame fuel line size if original.

By the way welcome to the site from Winnipeg.

Hopes and dreams · Member

That's great information guys thank you it is most definitely a 3/8 fuel line but that being said I have never owned a car that has been pull apart and reassembled so poorly. It did have a 350 4spd in it when in bought it both were supposed to be brand new rebuilt never fired I got 5 miles from home after I got it running lost oil pressure when I tore it down it had 4 different Pistons in it that should explain what the rest has been like! Lol I think I will look into getting the info from gm pretty fantastic that they do that!

I hope the weather is better in Winnipeg than here! I was hoping to drive the car there to visit family this summer but I will be luck to get the body finished and sprayed by then!

mrford · Addicted!

Hi 68 never came with a 350 they came with 307 or 327 that's for sure been looking 6 month for a correct dated 327 block for my 68 to replace my 307 that started smoking last summer good luck !

Hopes and dreams · Member

Good info thanks yeah the more I learn the more I give up on the car ever being an original show car type with out winning the lottery! I built a 434 Ci small block and backed it by a TKO600 trans. Swapped disc's on the front, I bought the car sight unseen from a family friend against my better judgement. So might as well enjoy it.

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

He is so right no 350 in 68 . I had 69 on my brain. Sorry for that crap info. I have a 69 so that's drilled into my head. It would be a 307 or 250 hp 327 or a 275 hp 327 .

Ian

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 on Monday 24th of April 2017 10:28:41 PM

68vert · Guru

Hi mrford,

Not sure if its right for you but there's a fellow in Duncan BC on Vancouver island that's parting out a full size 68 Pontiac Convertible with a 327. He is asking $850 for the good running engine. Here is details he posted;

Engine block casting # is: 3914678 (for specific applications see page 65 of Alan Colvin's Chevrolet by the Numbers Volume 1965-69)
Engine block casting date is: E 28 8 = May 28 1968
Assembly code stamping on block is V0531HH = Flint assembly May 31 1968

mrford wrote:
Hi 68 never came with a 350 they came with 307 or 327 that's for sure been looking 6 month for a correct dated 327 block for my 68 to replace my 307 that started smoking last summer good luck !

Hopes and dreams · Member

No worries guy's I just appreciate all the help and info I can get, thanks again!

mrford · Addicted!

Thanks ! I am in BC an seen that one last summer when he still had a body on it that date about 7-8 months to late I need a J of 67 my car is early production found many blocks but they are already @ 30-40 over or they had wrong date I need something at standard I have new forged 327 30 over pistons on rods a rare 327 steel large journal steel crank with a fresh grind @10/10 an 2 sets of camel hump heads that are bang on just need that block hopefully get it together by this summer my back up plan is A 010 4 bolt block still at standard from 74 an ready to build but still waiting for that 678 block to come my way some day soon !