I have a sd Beaumont that was stored away since 1976 it had a colour change from silver. Its a rust free car and Im restoring it back to the original colour. My question is the rear wheel wells. I had the bottom sand blasted it only had light undercoat
In the wheel well area and when I was cleaning them up I thought I seen silver body colour. Now is it supposed to be body colour or black
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About 10 years ago I did a good chunk of the restoration on my nephew's 67 SD 738 car. When I stripped off the undercoating in the wheel wells there was the car body colour, Granada Gold under it.
The floor colour underneath the undercoating was a kind of blue/green primer or sealer of some sort.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Thanks thats what I thought
This car was originally silverglaze also.
This car was taken apart to be repainted in 1975 /76 in a garage in North van and not touched till I picked it up at Easter
No missing parts. Except the 396 was replaced by a 454 and after
Checking numbers ect. Its a low mile like new compete 1972 ls7
About 10 years ago I did a good chunk of the restoration on my nephew's 67 SD 738 car. When I stripped off the undercoating in the wheel wells there was the car body colour, Granada Gold under it.
The floor colour underneath the undercoating was a kind of blue/green primer or sealer of some sort.
My memory of this is right on the colour but wrong on the location. I dug out some old pictures. This is what was on the underside of the floor and in the wheeltubs.
Thanks. Just had a cool finding today. I actually found a second serial number on the bottom of the
Passenger rocker panel. Always heard of a second but never actually seen one before.
Thanks. Just had a cool finding today. I actually found a second serial number on the bottom of the Passenger rocker panel. Always heard of a second but never actually seen one before.
So it had the car serial number, or part of it on the rocker? I've never seen that. The one I was doing some restoring on had it on the frame rail behind the rear wheel and it was perfectly clear. However once the frame was sandblasted and powerdercoated it wasn't visible any more.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Interesting. I wonder what significance that part of the number has.
Did you look for a partial VIN on the top of the frame behind the rear wheel? I think you'll find one there. Seems to me it was passenger side but this was about 12 years ago, I could be wrong on which side.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
When I rebuilt my 67 Beaumont, I found Three sets of numbers on the frame rails, two on the left outside rail behind the rear tire and the third was on the inside of the right frame rail before the upper control arm.
I lightly sand blasted the entire frame especially around these alpha numeric sets. The front was very clean to begin with, however both are very visible once the primer and paint was applied.
Good luck with you project
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New Brunswick , 1950 Pontiac Silver Streak 2 Dr Sedan, 1967 Beaumont, 1985 Sierra 1500 One Owner
This same frame I am talking about also had numbers on the side of the left rail. It had a part number a date code and PONT, presumably for Pontiac, Michigan where it was made. At least reading up on it that's what I found out.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Wow, that's a nice clean car... it reminds me how I found mine in '87...covered in dust in a garage. with its one repaint... but still sporting the original interior, carpet and weather stripping that I never replaced.
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic