TheBEAUMONTGURU

totally awesome! im diggin the trailer too!

Got the engine bay detailing all finished. made the aircleaner assembly on a metal lathe then added a snorkle. lots of scratch built stuff like the fan spacer and linkages. i built a radiator spacer too(the kits never have them and this car being a 283 does not use a fan shroud, only a spacer) i made all the decals in photoshop, they are the correct ones for a canadian built chevelle or beaumont. and a metal foil cowl tag. and some free hand assembly line chalk marks on the firewall too. It has added power steering and power brakes from the parts bins. I made the oil filler tube and cap from round stock.

I keep forgetting to take pictures. So here is the finished interior after installing the body. Added some seatbelt details, and my steering column is now for a powerglide column shift automatic. I still have to put in some rear door glass too.

nice job getting the seat cloth to look so realistic! great technique.

A bit more work, the engine is from the 64 impala kit with a proper aluminum powerglide. i found a nicer looking intake and made the oil filler tube out of round stock. the valve covers i think are from an old mpc truck kit out of the parts bin and the carb i belive is from the revell 65 truck kit., lots of bits and pieces to make it the most acurate. i scratch built most of the power streering, and it will also get a power brake booster. Trying to get as much plumbing and wiring as i can. It sure helps to have real Beaumont to use as reference. The single exhaust system is mostly scratch built, using bits and pieces from the stock chevelle BBC kits.

very nice detailing. i like the A/C compressor

This one is turning out fantastic!. your attention to detail is incredible. well done!

Got most of the paint on the chassis. to keep it stock appearing as GM of canada would have done it, i sprayed a green etch primer on the whole thing, then applied a mist of body color white, followed by a black frame and then a sloppy layer of undercoat in the wheel wells

I made the rest of the roof rack. i used round evergreen stock and carved out some mounts. then hit it will the revell spray chrome.

OK great, i will send you a message.

here we see a small modification to the 1966 chevelle rear bumper, in order to make it a 1967 i had to drill out some rectangular backup lights. it worked but wasnt an easy thing to get right. You will also note my starting or a roofrack. using metal HVAC foil tape for the stainless roof ribs. Taillights are stock kit part from the 1967 chevelle SS kit, that are fit into my newly shaped housings in the body

Im making a very complicated wheel and tire package to get just the right look. Im starting with some parts bin black tires that look close to a 7.75-14 bias ply. I got some stick on vinyl white stripes that i am very happy with. The wheels are 14" from fireball. The hubcaps i turned out of aluminum on a metal lathe then resin cast copies and painted them with molitow. i then made up a decal set for all the little black dots and the center beaumont logo. i also added tire valve stems

Im painting the body 1967 GM Provincial White. the interior is now done with NPD medium blue vinyl dye for teh real cars. Here i have now painted my grill with molitow and started some of the blackwash highlights, its looks better in person. THe rear of the body has been altered around the taillights and the 1967 taillights are ready to install. All the tailgate trim and the lower side mouldings are made from evergreen strip The dash cluster is from the revell 66 GTO kit, then detail painted to match the 67 beaumont colors, the guages are made in photoshop and printed with my decal paper and color lazer printer. Carpet is a mixture of flocking to get the right dark blue color

The interior on a 67 chevelle is far different from a 66 chevelle, luckily the 67 chevelle and 67 baumont share interior patterns, so i used the 67 2dr ht chevelle seats and modified the rear bench to use in the front, it required buying 2 67 chevelle kits to get 2 rear seats. The 66 door panels were all sanded smooth and then evergreen strips were made for every single pleat and pattern for both front and rear door panels, you can also see i scratch built all the armrest and made up a column-shift automatic. Im making it a Power window car, so i scratch built some tiny power window switches too You will also note that the Bigblock hood has now been filled in with a chunk of plastic and the center rib made out of evergreen strip, this was a hard project to get the flat hood!!!! lots of primer and sanding!!

I did this same chassis pan modification on my 65 wagon project. i used the 67 chevelle pan because its the only one with a correct frame(the Z-16 kit uses a convertible frame). i modified the back end to depict the wagon floor and gas tank Left is the convertible/Z-16 frame, middle is stock 67 chevelle, right is modded 67 chevelle into wagon form.

here i am making the unique taillights for beaumonts. although the station wagon does not use them, i made a set anyway just to have. i moulded them out of clay just like in a gm design studio in the 1960's, then resin cast them. Here is also some of the work cutting the bodies apart and grafting the 67 front end onto the wagon body. the other body is my test of the taillights for a future 2dr HT project

I already built a replica of my 1965 beaumont station wagon in another thread. Now this time im going to use some of my scratch-build and resin cast 1967 parts to build a one-off 1967 Beaumont Custom station wagon. I have a clear vision of how i want it to be equiped so there is going to be a ton of scratch building and kit bashing from various kits. Im using the revell 1966 chevelle wagon as a basis. as well as the front end off the 1967 chevelle SS hardtop kit. a parts bin Small block 283 is going in place of the Biglblocks. Here is how i made the grills for both the 65 and 67 beaumonts, first building and modifiying the 1967 chevelle grill using evergreen strips, then resin casting the final product.

Nice progress, i really like the mesh grill. Stay on it, only 3 more weeks til the next meeting/contest!

Thanks Zen, if you find the taillights, would you be willing to ship everything to Minnesota address or my Canadian Address?

Looking for the window glass and the unique hood scoop from the CHEIF autoparts glidden car, i also believe the rickie smith version has the scoop too the scoop is made of 3 parts as shown in my picture. so i need the 3 peices. I also need the window glass, (clear), i think i also need the taillight lenses as well. Im in canada but i can have stuff shipped to either Minnesota, USA or Manitoba, canada Thanks Dave Anderson (thebeaumontguru)

The 1966 Buick Riviera Kit has a really nice "stratobench". techincally to be correct only the 1967 Caprice had the stratobench as an option( but only the 67 chevy gurus will know that piece of trivia). It works very nicely in an impala too. I ended up just building my own stratobench from the 2 bucket seats in the SS kit(see picture), but then i found out the riviera has one already!

Thank you everyone! i really enjoyed this project. stay tuned for more Beaumont conversions in the future!

Finished!

here is the L-79 327 installed. still lots of details left, but is getting there. I used the 66 nova engine and transmission, a parts box intake that i modded lots and lots! built the thermostat housing, fireball carb, made all my own fan spacers, alt brackets, hoses, throttle linkage and brackets, built my own coil and bracket. modded the rad spacer and craddle to accept my new grill, etc, etc. The 65 Z-16 engine compartment fit in really well to the AMT crappy wagon body. i even made a pretty convincing cowl tag from a piece of foil. i used the dual master cyl from a 67 chevelle kit, as my real car has the dual cyl upgrade.

getting back on this project. Its almost finished. here i am mocking up the stance. wheels are fireball 15x7 and 15x6 just like the real car. fabricated the proper looking tailpipes and added a sway bar and raised the rear end a bit, built my own shocks from scratch.