Welcome to the world of old school GM Canada. Like Brazilian Mopars or Australian Fords, GM cars of the Great White North are fantastic odd balls that mix design cues from different divisions, resulting in a unique model for it’s respective foreign market. That’s exactly what we have here with Bob Doucette’s rare 1967 Beaumont SD396 Convertible. The Calgary Herald brings us the story.

This Beaumont was essentially a 396 Chevelle Convertible with a Pontiac flavored grille, tail lights and the dashboard plucked from it’s corporate U.S. sibling, the LeMans. Sporting a 325 HP 396 and TH400 transmission, Bob says it’s just one of 66 produced.

Doucette wanted to buy one new back in the day, but his Dad wouldn’t co-sign. In hindsight, Bob says things turned out for the best as he was too young for that much horsepower and probably would’ve wrecked it.

About 15 years ago, when Bob turned 50, a friend mentioned that he had a friend in neighboring Moose Jaw who owned a ’67 Chevelle convertible. Bob was skeptical he’d ever find another Beaumont Convertible and lowered his sights to a more common ’67 Chevelle. When they went to look at the car, much to Bob’s surprise, it was a Marina Blue 1967 Beaumont SD 396!

Since then, Bob has racked up just 3000 miles on the car. He’s tied up some loose ends in the interior and rebuilt the engine and transmission but other than that this Beaumont has been gently cared for. Sometimes, Bob says he likes to go down to the garage, light up a smoke and just look at this gorgeous sheet metal of this rare Canadian GM hybrid beauty.