I finally finished it. Took me over 3 years to do. All the decals are made by myself on photoshop, I scratch built all the trim, roof rack, and interior panels with strips of plastic. The body is part 1966 chevelle wagon and part 67 chevelle HT all grafted together. Its got a proper 283 with a powerglide, the bottom chassis was all scratch built at the rear end to better resemble the station wagon floor and gas tank, and i scratch built the spare tire well. The engine is fully wired and plumbed, tons of scratch built parts like the rad spacer, fan spacer, all the power steering, etc. the grill is my own resin casting. the hubcaps and air cleaner were turned out of aluminum on a lathe, then replicated with resin casting for multiple copies. the wheels are special resin castings that i added authentic 7.75 tires to, whe a vinyl cut white stripe decal, i added all the valve stems too. teh exhaust is scratch built single setup. its got power window switches and a power tailgate switch that i made too. The towne dealer decal, an expo 67 decal and a few national parks passes for fun. i made up a sheet to resemble how the car would be documented. yes i painted it with NPD interior medium blue left over from my convertible restoration. and the body is painted with PPG omni single stage Provincial white.
Seriously thought about it, but there is only one documented 67 with air and its an export car. The jury is still deliberating if any canadian ones recieved it, so i figured i would omit.
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MY BEAUMONT HAS 4 STUDDED TIRES AND 2 BLOCKHEATERS......AND LOTS OF OIL UNDERNEATH. The other one has a longer roof.
You mean like it was bought by an "old" lady (who wasn't old in 1967). To tow an airstream to the Montreal exposition. Camping at various national parks along the way. Then parking it after the trip due to a blown transmission. And never to see the light of day again until now. Btw I still want to add a trailer hitch.
Come on guys, nobody is going to believe that. Afterall those powerglides are bullet proof!
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MY BEAUMONT HAS 4 STUDDED TIRES AND 2 BLOCKHEATERS......AND LOTS OF OIL UNDERNEATH. The other one has a longer roof.
Or blew the engine towing East under warranty, and had a replacement engine dealer installed in Toronto. But you'd have to alter the block stamping to make it believable...
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
You mean like it was bought by an "old" lady (who wasn't old in 1967). To tow an airstream to the Montreal exposition. Camping at various national parks along the way. Then parking it after the trip due to a blown transmission. And never to see the light of day again until now. Btw I still want to add a trailer hitch. Come on guys, nobody is going to believe that. Afterall those powerglides are bullet proof!
Like you say, it was a good story until the blown transmission! Then all credibility went out the window.
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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
My hands shake so much I would get glue in the wrong places.
My early years was in building balsam wood airplanes and then I tried to mount an 049 engine to a board and fired it up.... right under the bedroom where my father was sleeping. Didnt plan that.....
Picked up the first thing that came to hand and jammed it into the propeller amidst a cloud of cursing from upstairs..... that model never got beyond the vise incident.
Like you say, it was a good story until the blown transmission! Then all credibility went out the window.
My pops 67 beaumont wagon had over 400,000 miles on it by the time he retired it. it had a trailer hitch and spent most of its life with a utility trailer on it because dad was a carpenter with 5 kids and didnt have a truck for tools or supplies. im thinkin i made at least 5 vacation trips to ont while we lived out west between bc and man. good old days before seatbelts and we rode in the back.
