1968 Baldwin Motion Camaro photo

[StealthBird]

Interesting, I was looking at this photo, very well known now, of the 1968 Baldwin Motion Camaro lifting its wheels on the street.

[StealthBird]

Was playing around with a photo editor, and lightening up the shadows, and voila, there's the Ram Air scoops. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif

[John Brown]

I've had that on my screen as a background for several years. The scoops were always easy to see on my screen. I don't recall where I found that particular version of the picture, but it sure is cool. <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/worship.gif

[Charley Lillard]

But where is the car ?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

Wasn't there controversy about whether the car was really lifting the wheels on the street vs. some photo editing from back in the day?

[owners2]

Good question Charley. Does Joel have the vin to this car? &amp; if so just like the many others he says he has paperwork &amp; vin#'s for why can't these cars be found.

[Schonyenko2]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wasn't there controversy about whether the car was really lifting the wheels on the street vs. some photo editing from back in the day? </div></div>

Yep. Somebody go wake up Howie. He never believed the pic was real.

[rubbinisracing]

The car's shadow on the pavement looks tooooooo rectangular.

[Charley Lillard]

I think I remember Marty saying it was real and the street it was taken on.

[owners2]

Hey Charley, I think u should try &amp; find it &amp; add it to ur Awesome collection.

[JoeC]

there is a similar picture of Joel lifting the wheels in the MP Cobra and some say its fake.

I think they are both real pictures.

I have seen people do it on the street back in the day and don't find it hard to believe that Joel did it in these photos.

[x Baldwin Motion]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I think I remember Marty saying it was real and the street it was taken on. </div></div>

the street, car, wheelie, and photo are all real. the Nash Rambler wagon heading west with Howie riding shutgun is a fake.

[MosportGreen66]

Photo is real, Marty confirmed it when he posted an unedited version on this site.

[bashton]

I think you guys should ask Joel and Marty when they join us at MCACN November 19-20!

Bashton
MCACN Managing Member

[owners2]

Why hasn't that car been found?

[markjohnson]

Shamefully, it was probably hacked up &amp; butchered into a 9.90 Index Super Gas car in the early-'80's. I've always considered that photo legit because it's happening on a busy street with traffic coming up behind it! There's no time to get out there with a hydraulic jack and jack stands to &quot;stage&quot; a wheelie photo. Now on a different note, the famous Motion Cobra wheelie photo takes place in a parking lot where it's easy to get a pair of jack stands underneath and get the camera angled just right.

[x Baldwin Motion]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: markjohnson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...... the famous Motion Cobra wheelie photo takes place in a parking lot where it's easy to get a pair of jack stands underneath and get the camera angled just right. </div></div>

you are correct Mark. below an email from Joel;

<span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;THAT PICTURE WAS STAGED FOR THE SHOT, BUT THE CAR REGULARLY PULLED THE WHEELS AT MOST OF THE EVENTS WE RAN.....JOEL&quot;</span>


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v403/pulnaway/Motion-Performance-draginsnake-cobra-drag-race-car.jpg

[Martyn L. Schorr]

It fooled me as well! I don't know who took this photo or when it was taken. I discovered it in an old scrapbook that Judith Rosen had loaned me and I scanned the print.
I did shoot the &quot;wheels-up&quot; photo of the Camaro racecar being tested on Sunrise Highway.
Marty

[mockingbird812]

&quot;I did shoot the &quot;wheels-up&quot; photo of the Camaro racecar being tested on Sunrise Highway.
Marty&quot;



Who was at the helm Marty?

[427TJ]

Easy to tell the Cobra photo was staged by the wrinkle in the slicks. No torque-wrinkle, it's an at-rest wrinkle. (How's that for a grassy-knoll/Zapruder film type of analysis?)

[Jack_Tar]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 427TJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Easy to tell the Cobra photo was staged by the wrinkle in the slicks. No torque-wrinkle, it's an at-rest wrinkle. (How's that for a grassy-knoll/Zapruder film type of analysis?) </div></div>
I had noticed the same thing as well as the posture of the driver.

[L72copocamaro]

No smoke, rear wheel is static and you can see the jack stand base.