Has any magazines,done articles on Canadian performance PONTIACS.. 1961-64 409 CARS IN FULL SIZE, 327-396 Beaumonts, 327-396 in Acadians.. how about 396-427 full size Strato chief-Laurentian-Pariesienne 2 door,sedan and hardtop.. Seems like our US friends deem these cars orphans,because of chevy drivelines!..how do we get the magazine guys see these cars? I thought, the magazine guys, would love to be the first, to do some good articles, on these northern muscle cars..they are starting to recogize Australia  

As I thought... keep the L72 PONTIACS IN CANADA  

I remember those cars, being from Vermont, next to Canada, and had seen plenty of them and was always interested that the cars were the same just the names different.  

Call me a traitor! I'm Canadian, but I lean more to the traditional Pontiacs. I think there are enough Chevys, without our mutts. Seroiusly, though, I can't imagine the hassle it must be for owners of Canadian built Pontiacs to get resto parts, the Chevy suppliers don't admit they exist and neither do the Pontiac stores. The original "Muscle Car Review", with Tom Shaw as editor (not the watered down, Car Craft sideline that ciculates now) ran at least one article on a Beaumont SD convertible. Even here in Ontario, we don't see many of these cars anymore. Back in the eighties, a budy of mine bought a 63 Acadian Canso, 4dr, 194cid with bolt-action 3-on the tree manual for $50. It was a 70,000 mile old lady car with way too much rot to fix, sadly we drove it as a field beater until the mono-leafs came up thru the trunk, then shot it to scrap with .22's. A shame, it still ran great!  

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Call me a traitor! I'm Canadian, but I lean more to the traditional Pontiacs. I think there are enough Chevys, without our mutts. Seroiusly, though, I can't imagine the hassle it must be for owners of Canadian built Pontiacs to get resto parts, the Chevy suppliers don't admit they exist and neither do the Pontiac stores. The original "Muscle Car Review", with Tom Shaw as editor (not the watered down, Car Craft sideline that ciculates now) ran at least one article on a Beaumont SD convertible. Even here in Ontario, we don't see many of these cars anymore. Back in the eighties, a budy of mine bought a 63 Acadian Canso, 4dr, 194cid with bolt-action 3-on the tree manual for $50. It was a 70,000 mile old lady car with way too much rot to fix, sadly we drove it as a field beater until the mono-leafs came up thru the trunk, then shot it to scrap with .22's. A shame, it still ran great!

Hi. I just bought a 63 Acadian Canso.194/PG 4 dr.These are an oddball anymore as most rusted away years ago in the salt spray. I like the U.S. Pontiacs better myself, but as I get older and the Canuck cars get rarer I come to appreciate them more. Back in the 70's the Beaumonts were thrashed the same as any car of the day. No one cared about saving any of those cars.I know one guy who still has a SD396 but that's all.  

Last summer I was fortunate to buy a beautiful 68 Beaumont Custom convertible.I didn't even know what a Beaumont was, I was just looking for a muscle rag top.I immediately fell in love and am now obsessed with Beaumonts.My car is black with a black top with white interior.I amtold top and interior are original and they look nearly new!! 68 Beaumonts are really the best of both worlds as they have the chevelle body (Nicer tail-lights) and the much nicer pontiac interior.My engine is not original as a   small block 350 replaced the 307 but it still isa 4spd. Not sure how rare the custom model is but know it must be as info is difficult to find. Please comment  

The Custom was not a particularly rare model as far as Beaumonts go.  I do not have any specifics (you could get those from GM Canada).

The rarest of the 1968 Beaumonts was the SD-396.  There were 65 SD Convertibles produced in 1968.  OF these 9 came with 350 HP 396's.  The remainder had 325 HP 396's.  There were also a little over 700 SD hard tops made that year.

My first car was an SD-396 Convertible.  Finding parts was a nightmade - particularly the exterior trim.  The SD had twin stips of chrome that ran the length of the body.  Finding an original 4 spd console was also a challenge.

I had the car 15 years and sold it shortly after my daughter was born.  I still dry every time I pass a big block convertible in the summer.  

Come to think of it, I have seen quite a few Canadian Pontiacs over the years in my area. There was a guy with a 396 Beaumont SD (automatic, red paint, Cragars) when I worked at Midas in Brockville, my buddy's 63 Acadian mentioned above, a guy passing thru town a few years back with a blue 68 Beaumont convertible with a small block, a light green metallic 68 Parisienne 2-dr hardtop (350) and the one that I still know of for sure - a guy I used to work with has a 65 Acadian 4-dr with a built-up 283, powerglide, butter yellow paint and black steel wheels. He only brings it out about once a summer, warms it up in his driveway, backs out on the side road he lives on and leaves about a 1000 miles of rubber on the road in about 200 yards, then puts it away! It was a western car with a very solid body and he won't sell it for any price.
I always thought it would be cool to get a 65-67 dr hardtop Acadian Canso and arm it with a 250 OHC6 and either an overdrive auto or 5-spd and 4.11 gears, just to be different!