Ryan Mostat purchased this 1967 Beaumont SD as his first car! It's been over 37 years since that purchase and in that time Ryan has put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into the Beaumont to transform it into the beauty that we are proud to feature for May. Ryan gives us the details:

"In the fall of 1982 I was 15 years old and bought my first car.  A 1967 Beaumont 2 DR HT SD for $500! I bought it from a guy who used it for drag racing only. It was pretty rough but not for a kids' first car.  After the winter passed I went and got the car and found it had been stripped, no chrome, no hood, etc. So I went and bought another Beaumont 4DR for $90 and used it for parts.  The motor was gone, so I used the 283 2speed automatic from the 4dr to get through high school.  After working in Alberta for a year, I found a 396 motor and I built it with a turbo 400 and just drove it.  The car only had 32,000 miles on it.

About 1999 I stopped driving it and parked it in my garage (wife, kids, work, bills, divorce etc).  But 2007 I did a lot of night work and saved my money. It was late winter and I was going to go and buy myself another model to do in my spare time. Then I thought to myself, I have a really big model in my garage that needs to be done!  So, I decided to do the Beaumont. It only had 45,000 miles on it and no rust. 

In my 14x20 unheated garage, I stripped and repaired the car. I was able to do all the body work and was lucky there wasn't any metal work to be fixed. Only 1 quart of body filler used to do the whole car. The stock colours were: turquoise exterior with gold interior. For a young guy those were the wrong colours. 

I rented a paint booth at a body shop and painted it myself. I was a ticketed painter in my younger years and had the help of my best friend who is a ticketed bodyman! All the work on the car was done by me except for the re-upholstery of the seats, the headliner, and the glass. I primered the car with grey, then first coat yellow, then final colour was my modified version of viper red. And new black interior! She was hot! Made my new wife jealous.

I put front disc breaks on it and left manual steering (10 bolt posi with 3.08 gears).  Thanks to Canadian Poncho, I found out that my car is the first 738 Beaumont (December 6, 1966) built.  I kept the 14 inch wheels, added a dash tack and console clock. I didn't change anything else in order to keep my collector plates.  

My Beaumont has not been washed since I repainted it. I look forward each spring when the roads are clean and I can start her up and hear her roar. 

  Ryan"