this 68 Camaro 427 Motion set a 10.45-second quarter-mile record

And the 2nd owner was racing a 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda one night when the police showed up and set a blockade. 

While the Cuda stopped, the Camaro drove past the blockade. The cops tried shooting the tires, and a bullet hit the car's quarter panel.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/ultra-rare-1968-chevrolet-camaro-427-motion-once-took-a-bullet-from-the-police-249402.html#

Motion Corvette

 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122105689658528300&set=pcb.3936254389984587

'70 Baldwin-Motion Phase III GT was owned by Larry Cain, it was stolen after he passed away

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=279104698899103&set=a.109878175821757

up for sale, a 1970 L78 396 Baldwin Motion Nova

https://legendarymotorcar.com/inventory/1970-chevrolet-nova-ss-l78-2716.aspx

https://journal.classiccars.com/2024/07/18/pick-of-the-day-motion-prepped-l78-1970-nova-ss/

Baldwin Motion made 3 1969 Chevelles

 they put 1969 Mach 1 Mustang mirrors on them

Few could afford a Baldwin Motion built muscle car, fewer teenagers could even consider it.

 But 18 yr old Roberto Schneider, in 1968, had a rich Grandpa who owned the largest bank in Mexico.

 A friend with a 435-horse Corvette suggested that a Baldwin-Motion Camaro, with its outrageous guarantee, might be the way to go.

In late 1968, he arrived in Long Island, New York, and after a test-drive, Roberto was convinced that he would need a pair of cars—a four-speed Camaro for his street-racing exploits, and an automatic-equipped Chevelle to use as a tow car. 

Martyn Schorr, editor of Hi-Performance Cars magazine, called the pair "one of the most significant muscle car purchases in Baldwin-Motion history," a fact.

The order for the pair came to an eye-watering $16,692.86 in 1968 dollars,

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2022/06/09/one-of-just-three-69-baldwin-motion-phase-iii-chevelles-built-and-the-only-one-to-lug-a-camaro-around-behind-it

Baldwin Motion Chevelle, 1969, one of 3 made

 https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2022/06/09/one-of-just-three-69-baldwin-motion-phase-iii-chevelles-built-and-the-only-one-to-lug-a-camaro-around-behind-it

legit 1960s racing Corvette, made by the Cars Magazine guys and Motion Performance, I love it

 

1972 Motion Phase III Camaro

 

https://www.mcacn.com/

Motion Performance–equipped '69 Buick GS

Jim Hawthorne constantly scans his surroundings for anything interesting. Back in 1978 he was motoring along a New Jersey road when, in his peripheral vision, he spotted a 1969 Buick GS hood leaning against a garage. The Buick lover stopped to ask whether the hood was for sale, and the owner said it was not because he had the car it came on. The car wasn’t for sale either, but Jim left his name and number just in case.

To his surprise, a few weeks later the Buick’s owner called to say he’d sell it because he “had a hot date that weekend and needed the money.” They agreed on a price for the deteriorated but complete GS over the phone, and Jim actually saw the car for the first time when he picked it up. He was surprised and excited to see the many special parts that were with the car, including Hurst wheels, various Motion Performance and Hurst-Equipped emblems, large-valve 1969 400 heads, a Fly Eye air cleaner, Mickey Thompson long-tube headers, a Stage II camshaft, and sn 8,000-rpm tach mounted in the four-speed Buick consolette.

to know how nice it is, I think is helped by seeing how rough it was

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/buick-community-helped-restore-rare-gs/

Some extremely expensive collection cars are going to auction this July 31 through August 3. Some for probably the dozenth time; Sox and Martin and Landy drag racers, but there are some cars you might not have seen before

there are a half dozen or more Landy dragsters

and a couple Baldwin Motion Phase 3 cars

https://www.mecum.com/auctions/harrisburg-2019/collections/todd-werner-collection/

the only documented original condition 1968 Baldwin Motion Camaro (only 4085 miles), and wouldn't it be cool to go to a dealership and pick up a car that looks this cool... new? Wow. Cars at dealership now just aren't this cool looking

In 1968, Lud Renner was preparing to graduate from college when he decided to ditch his aging Ford street rod in favor of something that would rule the local competition. To Lud’s great fortune, he was living not far from Baldwin Chevrolet of Baldwin, New York.  Impressed by “Hi-Performance Magazine” tests of Baldwin-Motion products, Renner approached Baldwin’s Dave Bean, who referred him to Rosen.

In a 2010 interview with Marty Schorr, Renner described meeting Rosen as “an incredible experience… having him cherry pick the options needed to go as fast as I wanted to. He suggested options that I didn’t even know existed, like the aluminum-head L88 engine.”

Rosen specified Chevrolet’s full-blown big-block racing engine, further adding Motion’s renowned Stage III dyno tuning package and a 950 CFM Holley 3-barrel carburetor fed by an electric Super Pumper fuel pump, tuned Hooker headers, dual-point Motion-Mallory ignition, signature fly-eye air cleaner and finned alloy valve covers.

Well aware of Renner’s racing plans, Rosen also chose a Schiefer Rev-Loc clutch and aluminum flywheel, a steel scattershield, M22 four-speed with Hurst shifter and a 4.56:1 Positraction rear end, a complete Super-Bite suspension with traction bars and shocks, metallic brake linings, Mallory rev-limiter and a trunk-mounted battery.

After what Renner calls “maybe the longest three months of my life,” the new Camaro arrived.

Renner soon decided to use it for strip duty only. Mere months after taking delivery, he took it to nearby Englishtown Raceway, with 11-inch M and H Racemaster slicks, open headers, fresh plugs and a load of 110-octane aviation gas, the car ran 11.60 at 121 MPH on the first pass and went on to win its class.

In the spring of 1969, Renner won the NHRA World Championship Series opener at Englishtown, running 11.28 on the way to collecting the Grand Opener Championship trophy against fierce competition.

Renner retired his Camaro from competition after that win, subsequently moving to California to start his own graphics business and limiting the car to the occasional show or cruise. The two remained together for more than 40 years—until 2010, when Renner sold the car

I think the rims, and tire sidewall height had a lot to do with it's great looks.

New cars have a short sidewall for better handling around corners, but, this is the way tires should fill the wheel wells

1968 Motion Phase III 427 Camaro RS / SS L88

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1686223568321025/permalink/2309682722641770/
https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0116-229810/1968-chevrolet-camaro-rsss-motion-phase-iii/

1969 Motion GS 400 four speed getting a new home, and hopefully, much needed attention and a restoration

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1686223568321025/permalink/2118150161795028/

rarely seen but impossible to forget, the Baldwin Motion Phase III Corvette

https://uncrate.com/1969-baldwin-motion-phase-iii-gt-corvette/

Baldwin Motion's Fantastic Five

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-821#post-3206249

I don't think I've seen this photo of the Motion dealership before

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-637#post-3152424

a variety of dune buggies, how Motion made ends meet in the malaise era after the muscle cars were history

bitchin' garage full of Yenko and Motion cars

[1] This ’69 Phase III Motion Camaro
[2] This is a ’68 Motion Camaro
[3]The engine that will go into the Motion Chevelle has a rare -093 ’67 L88 intake and L89-type closed chamber -842 aluminum heads
[4]’67 Motion Chevelle, the only one known to have been created. This was originally built for bodyshop worker Charlie Mason, but Joel Rosen himself wrecked it during a race. Charlie quick-fixed the damage, and it stayed in the Mason family until it turned up on eBay. 

[5] '69 Fathom Green Yenko COPO Camaro

http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/ccrp-1301-rick-smith-restoration-garage/

Baldwin Motion's test Camaro

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1686223568321025/

Jim and Chester's Garage Tumblr posts some really cool and rare photos, I keep going back, year after year to catch up

'65 Plymouth Sport Fury

Can you identify the 3 guys? Bud Moore, Dan Gurney, and Parnelli
Dual Quad Mercury Cougar. Rare? Oh yeah

Dyno DOn in a 1 of 2 made, Boss 429 Cougar

Betty Skelton at Darlington

Ford Drag Team tour 1968

Holman Moody Falcon fastback

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211320489950343&set=gm.1040533356093280&type=3&permPage=1

2 seater Mustang prototype named Pegasus

Never see Talladega anywhere.. so I post them when I find them

Nassau in the mid sixties with a pair of Grand Sports

Cale Yarborough special Cyclone Spoiler

How many companies see a 100th anniversary? How many did in 1952?

Back when car wash locations were eye catching

http://prova275.tumblr.com/