Z28DZ
03-02-2005, 02:49 AM
From Team Camaro
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joe69rs
Tech Team
posted 03-01-2005 12:31 PM
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Yesterday I had the luxury of spending the day with an old friend of mine. I brought my beater Hyundai to his shop to weld up SEVEN cracks in the frame. She's a fine example of what not to do while engineering an automobile. Well anyway my friend used to be a mechanic for Baldwin Motion back in the glory days and we had some really cool conversation that I figure I would share with you. If you don't want to listen to my rambling just go to the last paragraph.
My friend told me he was selling his Motion Vega Wagon (which by the way is unbelieveably cool) and he had a guy from New Jersey come by his house to check it out. The guy was asking if he had any documentation on the car and Eric (my friend) looked at him like he was crazy. I guess the fact that he worked at Motion Performance and has owned this thing close to forever, the last thing he cared about was paperwork. So he brought the guy up to the attic of his house and dug out stuff he saved from working at Motion and the guy went bananas like he was in a museum. Taking pictures of stuff like one of Eric's old Motion time cards from 1976 and old Motion Books that had pictures of his car in it. From there he starting telling me about his days working at Motion. He talked about how he regretted selling his old L89 Camaro and his buddy Lenny who sold his 1967 Z/28 in the 80's for $12,500. He even mentioned working on one of the two ZL1 Corvettes at Motion . I didn't believe it at first but what stuck in my head was he said a carpenter bought it for his daughter to drive. Then I found this link this morning (http://www.corvettes-for-sale.com/spots/jan00/spot.htm) and in the article it says a guy named Wayne Walker bought the car from a cabinet maker for $6000. I couldn't believe it. I've known this guy since I was 18 and here is giving me a history lesson! He just kept spitting out stuff like this for like 4 hours. It was better than sitting down and reading a good book.
Now to the main topic. Eric has what he believes to be one of 50 COPO Novas ordered by Fred Gibb in 1968. The car is white with a 396/375, TH400, 12 Bolt, column shift, no emblems and dog dish hubcaps. He's looking to get paperwork to verify the car is what he thinks it is. He spoke to somebody who told him to write to Detroit but he doesn't know who? Has anybody been down this route and can provide some direction?
Joe
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1969 Camaro Rally Sport X-11
http://hobbystage.net/camaro/1969rallysport/
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joe69rs
Tech Team
posted 03-01-2005 12:31 PM
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Yesterday I had the luxury of spending the day with an old friend of mine. I brought my beater Hyundai to his shop to weld up SEVEN cracks in the frame. She's a fine example of what not to do while engineering an automobile. Well anyway my friend used to be a mechanic for Baldwin Motion back in the glory days and we had some really cool conversation that I figure I would share with you. If you don't want to listen to my rambling just go to the last paragraph.
My friend told me he was selling his Motion Vega Wagon (which by the way is unbelieveably cool) and he had a guy from New Jersey come by his house to check it out. The guy was asking if he had any documentation on the car and Eric (my friend) looked at him like he was crazy. I guess the fact that he worked at Motion Performance and has owned this thing close to forever, the last thing he cared about was paperwork. So he brought the guy up to the attic of his house and dug out stuff he saved from working at Motion and the guy went bananas like he was in a museum. Taking pictures of stuff like one of Eric's old Motion time cards from 1976 and old Motion Books that had pictures of his car in it. From there he starting telling me about his days working at Motion. He talked about how he regretted selling his old L89 Camaro and his buddy Lenny who sold his 1967 Z/28 in the 80's for $12,500. He even mentioned working on one of the two ZL1 Corvettes at Motion . I didn't believe it at first but what stuck in my head was he said a carpenter bought it for his daughter to drive. Then I found this link this morning (http://www.corvettes-for-sale.com/spots/jan00/spot.htm) and in the article it says a guy named Wayne Walker bought the car from a cabinet maker for $6000. I couldn't believe it. I've known this guy since I was 18 and here is giving me a history lesson! He just kept spitting out stuff like this for like 4 hours. It was better than sitting down and reading a good book.
Now to the main topic. Eric has what he believes to be one of 50 COPO Novas ordered by Fred Gibb in 1968. The car is white with a 396/375, TH400, 12 Bolt, column shift, no emblems and dog dish hubcaps. He's looking to get paperwork to verify the car is what he thinks it is. He spoke to somebody who told him to write to Detroit but he doesn't know who? Has anybody been down this route and can provide some direction?
Joe
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1969 Camaro Rally Sport X-11
http://hobbystage.net/camaro/1969rallysport/
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