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copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 03:05 AM
1979 Motion T/A 455 HO /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 03:07 AM
Motion /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 03:09 AM
B & M /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 03:11 AM
Holley 780 /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 03:14 AM
NOS /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif
hvychev
11-15-2003, 03:29 AM
The car is cool and I like the Motion plate frames that are on the car! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
olredalert
11-15-2003, 04:00 AM
------I hesitate to ask you Motion guys what you think its worth.With Motion prices like they are the thing would probably bring about a buck fifty or so!!!!!!!!!.........Bill S
55chevy
11-15-2003, 04:01 AM
Is that actually a Motion modified car or is it just a modified T/A that the owner thought would be neat to put a Motion plate frame on?? Seems if it was a Motion car, there would be more Motion "stuff" on it, not to mention something in the text about it.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif What else does the article say about it?
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 01:02 PM
The '79 Trans-Am featured here was
built by Jeff Baker and his crew at Motion
Performance in Baldwin, New York, and
is a prime example of what we are talking
about- Originally delivered with a typical
403-inch Olds motor, it now boasts pure
Pontiac power with more cubes, more
horsepower, more torque and more
street throttle response than anything
that Detroit has ever produced.

By Marty L.Schorr /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 01:08 PM
Typical Motion street test picture tradition /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 01:13 PM
Lakewood /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 01:45 PM
Mags
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Seems if it was a Motion car, there would be more Motion "stuff" on it,


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1978 (http://www.yenko.net/features/2000/September2000.htm)
JoeC
11-15-2003, 03:14 PM
Motion cars were mostly built to customer order. I am sure Joel would have thrown his whole catolog at it if the owner would write a check for it. The owner must have been a Pontiac die hard because many of the Firebirds got a BB Chevy transplant and became RatBirds. Motion was building cars into the early 90s but was not getting as much PR as in the 60s-70s.
copo9566aa
11-15-2003, 03:36 PM
I agree with you JoeC
this one is 99.9 % Poncho Power.

For starters Baker built up a vintage
455 H-O Trans-Am engine using port-
matched and polished heads, 9-to-1
forged TRW pistons and a Pontiac Ram
Air III camshaft degreed-in at 4 degrees
advance. The valve train now consists of
Chevrolet adjusting nuts and studs, Pon-
tiac pushrods and .optional 1.65-to-1
rocker arms. In place of stock Pontiac in-
duction components there's an Edel-
brock aluminum manifold supporting a
780-cfm Holley (#3310-2) four-barrel
topped with a Moroso free-flow air cleaner. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif