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Hello everyone! I've been posting about my 1965 Acadian Beaumont Sport Deluxe coupe project on the WIP section of the forum and the fascia I was designing garnered some much appreciated interest. Because of this I've decided that eventually I want to make and sell a 1965 Acadian Beaumont conversion kit for the Revell 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 Z16 kit. I do not know when I will make it available, as I haven't even designed all of the parts yet, but it will be coming! Here is the fascia thus far:
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Someone's probably done this conversion before, but I decided to take my own approach! The fundamentals of this build will be the Revell 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle and the AMT 1965 Pontiac GTO. Essentially an Acadian Beaumont is a Chevelle with an interior mostly sourced from the Tempest, LeMans, or GTO (depending on the specification) with a few Chevelle parts sprinkled in. In the case of the Sport Deluxe, it is essentially a GTO interior with a Chevelle center console, so the first order of business is getting the GTO interior tub into the Chevelle body. After trimming off the locating pegs on both parts, I did a test fit and found that the GTO interior tub is too shallow for the Chevelle. No big deal, I'll boost it up with some styrene! As you can see both tubs now line up perfectly. Another test fit you can see below confirms this issue is solved.
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The latest issue of Muscle Car Review features a 1965 Acadian L-79 , beautifully and painstakingly restored . The article re-catalysed my interest in those Canadian G.M. models , and got my mind going : Does anyone offer --in resin-- Beaumont and / or Acadian conversion pieces ? Has anyone built one --via scratch-building-- ? I'd really like to convert the new(ish) AMT 1968 El Camino to a phantom 1968 Beaumont SD-396 El Camino !
