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06-28-2006, 11:04 PM

July 2006 Feature Car: 1969 Baldwin-Motion *Phase III* GT1970 Baldwin-Motion *Phase III* GTOwned by: Larry Clainhttp://www.yenko.net/features/2006/pantera1.jpg1945 - 2006 <table borderColor="#FF9933" height="100%" width="100%" border="0"> <tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21"></td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">'69 Baldwin-Motion GT</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">'70 Baldwin-Motion GT</td></tr> <tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Engine (factory):</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">L71 427/435hp</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">L71 427/435hp</td></tr> <tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Engine (dealer):</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">L71 w/3-barrell carb</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">LS7 w/aluminum heads</td></tr> <tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Trans (factory):</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">THM400 automatic</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">M-21 (4-speed)</td></tr> <tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Rear (factory):</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">3.36 posi</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">4.10 posi</td></tr> <tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Exterior color (factory):</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Monoco Orange</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Dover White</td></tr><tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Interior color:</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Black leather</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Standard Black</td></tr>
<tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Factory Options:</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Tilt/tele wheel, power steering, am/fm, audio alarm system, F41 suspension</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">n/a</td></tr>
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<td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Dealer Options:</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Full "Phase III" treatment</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Full "Phase III" treatment</td>
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<td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Original Selling Dealer:</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Baldwin Chevrolet, NY</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Baldwin Chevrolet, NY</td>
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<tr><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="25%" height="21">Final Selling Dealer:</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Motion Performance, NY</td><td vAlign="top" align="center" width="37.5%" height="21">Motion Performance, NY</td></tr></tbody></table>

1969 Baldwin-Motion SS427 Phase III GT Corvette:

"I will never forget the excitment I felt, when I first saw the cover of Nov. 1969's, HI-Performance Car's Magazine (see it below) with the Baldwin Motion '69 SS-427 GT Corvette on it at my local Quicktrip store. At that time I seldom could afford it, but this time I bought that issue and sat in my car in the parking lot and read the entire article at least twice. I fell totally in love with the car on the cover. I can still remember wanting that car or at least one just like it. I liked it so bad that it was a factor in me foolishly tradeing the Black '61 315 hp FI vette I owned at the time for a '66 SS396 Chevelle just so that I could be as fast as some of the other guys that I ran around with. I just had to have a Rat Motor car."

"Then fast forward to 1972, where I was buying and selling used cars and expecially muscle cars and Corvette's. I will never forget the feeling of excitement when a dealer that I bought a lot of my used cars from, showed up with this all Black w/Gold stripe, '69 Vette cpe.. Of course I instantly reconized it as the same car as on the cover of the Car's magazine. Man I just had to have it and I paid $3,250 for it which at that time was full boat retail for a used Vette. (NO I don't want my money back..! But thanks for the offer)"

"I have found out that Both of my Motion vette's came from Ronnie Diamond Mtr. Co. in Dallas Tx. This one in early '72 and the other in early '74. When I bought the '69 it was already painted Black with a candy gold stripe down the center of the car and around the tail. I would love to find the original owner and/or any old photos of this '69 Baldwin Motion SS427 Phase III GT. I do beleive that it "is" the same car on the cover of Cars magazine. In the article it was painted Hugger orange with a black stripe. It was shown in the NY auto show in the spring of 1969. I have owned it for all these years and finally only now am I trying to document it. The tank sticker showes it came from Baldwin Chev as the new car dealer and shows it to be a 435 hp car with Th400 trans. That is consistent with the car shown in the magazine article. I have contacted Ronnie Diamond the car lot owner in Dallas, but he can't remember anything about the car at all. Said he had not kept any records from that long ago. Please understand that I have already talked to Joel Rosen in person all about this car. He has no memory of the previous owners of this car. I still want to try to locate the original owner to see if I can find any old photos of it after Joel sold it, so please don't contact him about this. He has heard enough about it I am sure. Over the years that I have owned this car I just worked for a living. It was very hard to hold on to these cars all these years especially through a divorce, but it is still mine and I know that it is in bad need of restoration. I am not proud of how the car looks now. But it is still good mechanically and it only has 44,000 mi on it. I am not really fond of Hugger Orange but I will for sure paint it that color if it turns out to be the actual car on the cover. Marty Schorr the editor of Car's magazine, recentely told me that it was Hugger orange when he shot the pic of it and not red like it looks on the cover. I want to see this car restored back to how it looked way back when it was at the NY auto show. Money could not buy it from me. I ran a body shop for a few years and can and will do my own work so that it will be done just the way I want it to come out. So Far everything I can find out about this car is consistent with the one in the Magazine articles."


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1970 Baldwin-Motion SS427 Phase III GT Corvette:

"Back in 1974, I would have never thought that I would be lucky enough to find a used Baldwin Motion vette for sale.
You can imagine my suprise one day when on a business trip to Dallas when I located a White '70 and bought it."

"My involvement with performance cars started back in the early ‘70’s. I owned a small used car dealer in Tulsa Ok. that specialized in Corvettes. My business was called Super Car Center. When I would run low on performance car’s I would to go to Dallas and OKC or Kansas City to buy Corvettes and Camaro's, and or Mustangs to sell off my lot. Usually, I couldn't get enough to sell. I was on one of my regular trips to Dallas (I could kill two birds with one trip as my Mother had married a Texan in Ft Worth so I would go see her and buy a car or two while I was in the area). Whenever I was in Dallas I always stopped by Diamond used cars. I had bought a few Corvettes wholesale from them from time to time so I always dropped by just to see what they had that week. They always had 10 to 30 Vette's and other Hi-perf muscle cars on their lot. I pulled into the driveway and setting pointing at me was a white Baldwin Motion Vette in a row of regular Corvettes. I spotted it right off because of the hood and "Ferrari" style headlights that made it stand out from the rest of the Vette’s parked next to it. I raced into the office and told Ronnie that I wanted to buy that Vette. He informed me that it was already sold. The guy he had sold it to had already gone through two clutch's and one set of head gaskets and the only reason it was there that day, was that it was just out of the repair shop for the owner to come pick it up after work. He was not too happy with this guy, but he had financed the car himself and he told me that he was sick of the dam thing costing him money to fix because the cost was just adding to the total of the loan. He said he was going to put the kid into another car if he messed it up again, because the note was getting just too big and he wanted to put the guy in another car that would not be braking so easy. This was not uncommon for a dealer to do back then and I knew from experience that a lot of Corvettes would wind up back where they were sold from, when the heat of summer made them too hot to cruise around in. Often they would trade them back in for something more practical. I told Ronnie that I "WANTED" that car really bad and to call me when or if he ever got it back on trade! He said he just might do just that, as the guy was a real problem with this car and he was tired of spending money on the car. The car only had 7,500 mi on it at that time. He said he was sure fed up with problems with him and if he had one more problem with him, he was going to put him in something else. He called me about 2 months later and said the guy had blown the Motor and the clutch this time. He had overheated the head gaskets again, only this time it had warped the block and ruined the motor and they had put a new crate LS-6 back in it with cast iron heads and sold the guy something else. He asked if I still wanted it? You can guess my answer so he told me to bring him $3,700 and come get the dam thing out of his sight. He said he was sick of looking at it. He said it runs good now with the new motor in it but, if it didn't make it back to Tulsa not to call him!!!. He assured me it was running like a new car with the new parts. So I said I will be there in the morning and was waiting for him to come in when he opened his lot the next morning. I don't think I slept a wink that night. It made it back to Tulsa just fine. With a 4:10 rear end, it was a gas hog though."

"When I got it back to Tulsa, I was going through the glove box in the back and found the original owners receipt from Baldwin Chevrolet, and signed by a Dave Bean to a H. Roger Lawler of Dallas Tx. It was dated Jan 21. 1971. It cost $13,620.00. This is the most expensive GT vette that Motion ever built. When I got the car it had around 9,000 mi on it and ran like a striped ass ape. It would churn the back tires so bad that it would drift sideways in 2nd and 3rd and scare the [censored] out of you. You could not get a back tire to hold it down on the street."

"I have kept this car just like it was ever since then. It only has 15,000 mi on it now. The paint has gone bad and the motor has a rod tapping in it. The last time I drove it was at Hallett motor raceway a sports car racetrack, near Tulsa where I live. By then I was just starting to race a ’63 Vette in SCCA B/P class so I was not using the Motion car much. The local Corvette club had an auto cross and I took the Motion out there on a trailer and gave it hell. It was so fast it was not funny. I put gumball autocross tires on to get good traction in the corners. Needless to say I won the fastest time of Day with the Motion. But when we loaded it on the trailer and the motor was cooled down I could hear a faint tapping noise and knew right away that I had spun a rod bearing going around the corners too fast and starving the motor of oil. So the car got parked and forgotten till the fall of 2003."

"Some friends of mine and I dragged it out of the storage building and washed it up and took it to the Super Car Renunion at St Louis on Labor Day 2004. I have always dreamed of finding the original owner ever since I bought it. I had gave it a half ass try back then but gave it up. Now thanks to computers I know the "Rest of the Story". I have finally located the son of the owner of the car. Roger Lawler was actually not the actual owner, but instead it was a HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PRESENT for his son!!! Wow what a present. When I graduated in 1963, I was glad to get a weekend at the lake and $200 cash. It turns out that the son, didn't tell his father just exactly what he was buying. The daddy told me that he was pissed when he arrived at Joels and found out just what a HOT ROD his son had bought. Daddy was a land developer in the Dallas area and I guess money was not a factor for them. They flew up and drove it back to Dallas. When I talked to Joel Rosen in person, at the Super car reunion in St. Louis in 2003, he told me all these things that I didn't know about the car. He also said that the son had called him years ago and said the car was wrecked and all these years he had just presumed that it was totaled and didn't exist anymore. His jaw sure dropped when I informed him that it was still around and in one piece. Joel later told me that the son about drove him crazy wanting to know when it would be ready. Apparently he was in such a hurry that he decided to skip having them install a Hone OD unit that he had ordered and took it home just as soon as they could get it out of the body shop. Joel also told me that it was the MOST EXPENSIVE GT vette that he ever sold because the kid wanted the biggest & baddest, fastest, motor he could build..!!! So Joel put a alum head LS-7 in the car. Meeting Joel Rosen in person, was a dream that I have had for most of my adult life. I remember calling him up about the '69 vette and asking him about it back in 1975 or 76 and he told me then that it sounded like I just might have his old car. I was always going to drive it up to show it to him but never did."


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Bill Pritchard

06-30-2006, 11:03 PM

Great stories and cars. I was fortunate enough to have met Larry at the Reunion where he brought the 70 car. Rest in Peace, Larry http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

Z-11 396

06-30-2006, 11:14 PM

<<< FANTASTIC >>> SAYS IT ALL FOR THE 2 CARS, AND THE GREAT STORY, THANKS FOR SHARING BOTH....KASEY .. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif

ORIGLS6

06-30-2006, 11:14 PM

Amen. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

mr396

06-30-2006, 11:16 PM

WOW! Great story. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/Can-I-Have-It.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/Can-I-Have-It.gif

SmallHurst

06-30-2006, 11:51 PM

Rest in Peace. May these cars be found in one piece so that Larry's dreams can carry on. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

Xplantdad

06-30-2006, 11:58 PM

We'll all miss you Larry. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Godspeed! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

PeteLeathersac

07-01-2006, 12:15 AM

Wow....I can't think of a more appropriate Feature? .

Thanks Larry....you certainly left your mark on more than the pavement! .
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~ Pete

bad1racing

07-01-2006, 12:49 AM

Pete,You beat me to it.What a feature!!!I never got the chance to meet Larry but just from what I have read in the other post about his passing it sounds like everyone he met was considered his friend.Sounds like a fabulous person and a pleasure to have been around.People like that are not replaceable.There would not be a book big enough for people to write rememberances in for this gentleman.I am not a drinker but heres to you Larry (Pantera) http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif.
Kendall

COPO

07-01-2006, 01:38 AM

Great feature. Larry RIP. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

71-LS6

07-01-2006, 05:09 AM

Good choice for the July feature, reading Larry's account of the cars' being purchased, was almost like listening to him recount the story in person when I first met him in 04'.

Dave Rifkin

07-01-2006, 06:19 AM

Please excuse my ignorance but, what happened to him? Was he sick or did he have an accident?

69motion

07-01-2006, 06:41 AM

great tribute rip larry my friend jeff

Xplantdad

07-01-2006, 08:19 AM

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Please excuse my ignorance but, what happened to him? Was he sick or did he have an accident?

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He had a massive heart attack http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

See Here for what transpired (http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/210130/an/0/page/0#210130)

hvychev

07-01-2006, 09:11 AM

Wow what a great tribure! Man, would Larry be proud! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

Tim Penton

07-01-2006, 09:24 AM

What was the address for Larry's web site?

55chevy

07-01-2006, 09:44 AM

Larry would be damn proud! .. Thanks guys .. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

I am going to post some more pics this weekend. Some never before seen ones the day the '70 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 car seen sunlight again after 15+ years. I think Larry would want that now.

btw.. Here is the link to the web page he was making for his cars. http://home.swbell.net/vette-65/index.html

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 08:33 PM

1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype Corvette. Owner: Larry Clain, Tulsa, Ok.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 08:40 PM

1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype .. circa 1972
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55chevy

07-01-2006, 08:45 PM

1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype .. circa 1972

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 08:57 PM

Larry used his Baldwin/Motion GTs for what they were meant to do http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Here is a pic of him doing it.

And in his own words: "Even wrecked it was fast enough to win FTD (Fastest Time of Day)at a OKC Autocross on the first run. They even called out their fastest Porche to come beat that ratty looking old Vette. His best time was second fastest to me. Pissed them off bad. I never made a second run since my time held up against all comers." Larry Clain.
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55chevy

07-01-2006, 09:10 PM

And here is what the GT looked like from behind that day..

And in Larrys own words.. how it came to look like that: "Sometimes you have no control over someone else's ability to drive....Some dumb bastard wasn't watching where he was going and rearended me at a light." http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

Needless to say.. Larry had access to the tank sticker afterwards... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 09:16 PM

and a close up. Knowing Larry.. He wasn't a happy guy when he seen this for the first time.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gifhttp://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 09:23 PM

1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype in the NY Autoshow circa 1969. This is when it was Joel Rosen's personal car.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 09:28 PM

The caption on the photo says it all.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 09:51 PM

A close up view of what made the Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT special.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 09:57 PM

1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype.. Photo from 11/69 CARS magazine article.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:02 PM

Here is Larrys '69 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype in original advertisment for the Phase III GT.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:06 PM

Here is the ad enlarged to make it more readable. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:10 PM

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:11 PM

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:19 PM

another photo of the '69 Baldwin/Motion SS427 Prototype from 11/69 CARS mag.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:25 PM

1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype - photo from 11/69 CARS mag.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:29 PM

1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype - detail photos from 11/69 CARS Mag.

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55chevy

07-01-2006, 10:39 PM

And the last one for Larry's 1969 Baldwin/Motion SS427 GT Prototype. An enlarged pic of the Aug. 1969 CARS magazine cover.

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:06 AM

1970 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 Corvette .. Owner: Larry Clain , Tulsa, OK.

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"Winning FTD at a Autocross at Tulsa fairgrounds 1977" Larry Clain

55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:11 AM

1970 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 .. circa 1975

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:12 AM

1970 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 "on its fastest lap at Hallett Motor Circuit - 1979 (It took FTD that day)" Larry Clain

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:22 AM

1970 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 after years of hibernation. (All photos that follow circa 2004.)

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:23 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:25 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:26 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:27 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:28 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:29 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:30 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:39 AM

And the work begins..... Larry, Perry and I spent 2 days, all day long, working to get the Motion out and cleaned up to bring it to the Super Car Reunion in 2004. The following Photos will show that process.. It was HOT those 2 days... Oklahoma Hot... But the 3 of us had a blast.. hard work and all. You could see Larry getting prouder and prouder and the smile on his face all day said it all. Enjoy the following Photos.

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:40 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:41 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:42 AM

Larry running the jack.

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:44 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:45 AM

This was the first time Larry (or anyone) had sat in the car in over 15 years. He was a happy guy this day.

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:52 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:53 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:55 AM

2 guys hard at work.. Me and Perry. (I'm the one sitting on my ass) http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 01:59 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:01 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:02 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:03 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:04 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:06 AM

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211670-DSC03205.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:07 AM

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211671-DSC03206.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:07 AM

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211672-DSC03207.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:08 AM

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211673-DSC03218.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:09 AM

Larry taking on 15 or so years of mildew... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif (it cleaned up real nice http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif)

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211674-DSC03219.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:12 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:14 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:15 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:16 AM

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211680-DSC03223.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:18 AM

Perry bringing the original leather back to life.

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211681-DSC03224.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:19 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:20 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:21 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:23 AM

1970 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 seeing sunlight for the first time in 15+ years.

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:25 AM

Loading it up for a trip to the car wash.

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211687-DSC03230.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:26 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:30 AM

Off to the car wash http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211689-DSC03232.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:32 AM

Perry sprayin.... Larry supervisin http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211691-DSC03234.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:34 AM

We spent about an hour at the car wash getting the dirt off.. (as well as some paint)..

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211693-DSC03235.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:36 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:37 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:38 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:41 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:42 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:43 AM

Larry and Perry and a clean original 1970 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211700-dsc03246.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:46 AM

Larry wanted a picture of the help... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Me and Perry.
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55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:49 AM

All cleaned up.. The day before the trip to SCR7.

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211703-DSC03247.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 02:52 AM

In the hotel parking lot in Collinsville, IL 2004.. Supercar Reunion #7. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211704-Larry_s_car.jpg

55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:19 AM

The following Photos are of Larry's 1970 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 at Super Car Reunion 7.

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211707-96830-SCR7060.jpg

55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:21 AM

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211708-97116-P1010059.jpg

55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:23 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:24 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:25 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:26 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:28 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:30 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:31 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:33 AM

That is Larry's car dealership sticker from the mid-70s. Super Car Center. He gave me one of the last perfect unused stickers he had.
http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211716-%5C%27sstuff036.jpg

55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:37 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:39 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:41 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:42 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:43 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:47 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:48 AM

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55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:51 AM

This is a patch Larry had specially hand made. He had a couple T-shirts made with this. I'll be wearing one at the Super Car Reunion this year in honor of my friend. Larry Clain.
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211726-MotionBlackpatch.JPG

55chevy

07-02-2006, 03:58 AM

This is the last pic I have to post.. This is a photo from SCR7 that I used photoshop on to give it a "restored" look.. I printed this pic on Photo paper and framed it and gave it to Larry.. He was humbled and inspired and told me "we need to get that car back in shape" .. I would have like to make that a reality with Larry.

God Bless You my friend. And Rest In Peace..

Ed.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/211727-Motion70ph3gt.jpg

55chevy

07-02-2006, 04:57 AM

In Larry's own words from his webpage:...

"Thats all folks.... Thanks for stopping by"

Dave Rifkin

07-02-2006, 06:01 AM

So what has happened to the cars? Are they still with the family? Were they sold off to collectors? Will they be restored to "as new" condition in Larry's honor?

55chevy

07-02-2006, 06:35 AM

[ QUOTE ]
So what has happened to the cars? Are they still with the family? Were they sold off to collectors? Will they be restored to "as new" condition in Larry's honor?

[/ QUOTE ]

So far they are still Stolen!!... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif... Let's retain that talk for this thread.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/210130/an/0/page/0#210130

.. Let's try and keep this thread as a rememberance to honor our friend Larry Clain and his awesome Baldwin/Motion GT Corvettes.

Mr. Duece

07-03-2006, 06:13 AM

Great documentary Ed and perfect July feature. I'm sure Larry would have been proud. It's situations like this that make us realize how valuable our lives and relationships really are. May he rest in peace.

70-SS/RS-L78

07-03-2006, 09:33 PM

The time just goes by soooo fast, You park the car for what you think will be a short time.
Let me get these “other things” in order then I will start (finish) this restoration and the
next thing you know 10 years have passed and the car; or cars are buried behind the
lawn mower, kids bikes, old furniture… well you get the picture. I bet Larry was Glowing
inside when his baby rolled out of that garage and out into the sun for the first time in
many, many years…. Thanks for the picture’s Ed….

Born30YrsLate

07-04-2006, 06:29 AM

Great picture documentary Ed and my condolences on Larry...would have loved to hear his stories first hand...

sixbrl440

07-04-2006, 09:03 AM

Larry is surely smiling down about this feature. Thanks, Rob and Ed, for making it happen. A more deserving person I cant think of and a more deserving pair of Corvettes I can't imagine.

55chevy

07-13-2006, 06:20 PM

I came across some old posts of Larry's that I think would fit in here as well... Here are Larry's words:

"Seem's like it took forever but I Finally got my Baldwin Motion Phase III Webpage started. I only have the page for the '69 done. I will have the White '70 later this week.
I sure makes me sad that so many of my pictures from back then were destroyed or lost. It seems that the ones that did surive were not that great. Wish I had never used that instant camera and had thought about having the memories to share with anyone.
I still have all the best memories in my mind and for somereason I can't seem to be able to get them to print out... <Frown>

My best pictures are from back when I lost interest in the Motion cars and parked them and started racing SCCA corvettes and Lola sportracers.
My life is like a time capsule. I never sold the old cars (Thank God) and just stored them and went on to newer and different projects.
I plan on semi-retiring this next year and getting back to them so that everybody that is interested in them can
see them instead of lingering under tarps in the back of my shop. Thank you all for this forum. I have been lingering
on the VAlkyrie Riders Motorcycle forum for the last 4 years and finding this one and getting to attend the St Louis
meet was all it took to re-kindle my love of Corvettes and Camaro's and all muscle cars. The attachtment is of my
"SuperCar Center" Used car lot back in the '70's and early '80's." Larry Clain, 10/7/03

http://www.yenko.net/attachments/213333-52816-SuperCars1.jpg

"Ed (55chev) came by tonight and drooled over the cars and he wants me to do the '70 first. I think it is because he wants us to take it out to the sonic for a sat night car show which happens every sat here in Tulsa. I am with you as I feel the first car Joel made of the 10 should be shown. It is different from all the rest he built. Ed just wants to go for a "RIDE" so bad it hurts...<BG> So do I. I have the documentation for the White '70 so it is not as important to me right now. There is no question where it came from and or does it need a frame off as it only has 15,223 mi on it and I thing I will just repair the damage from the front fender that was wrecked before I got it and restore the motor back to LS-7 spec's and it will not need near as much as the '69. I need to find a new 67 - 69 white GTO grill emblem to finish my presentation to Joel to get the car certified. Then I will take plenty of pictures of it with witnesses before I tear it apart to repaint it and bring it back to new condition

Thanks for the interest..

Larry" 10/7/03

"I just want to get the '69 done first as it needs to get the paperwork finalized from Joel. I am going to spend the rest of the week trying to find the GTO emblem locally so that I can put to rest my last piece of the puzzle. What if Joel doesn'T have the paperwork on this car then he will need to see this to satisify his mind that it is the same car. 21 out of 21 things is just the way that I want to do things. Once it is finalized I will be working on both cars and you can count on being involved if that is what you would like to do? You have to remember that paint work has to set for weeks to keep from having gost your body work show up in the finish coat. That way I will jump from car to car in each step till I get it just right and the finish will last for many years. I plan on these cars outliving me and just hope that 50 years from now someone will still be interested in them and will read about my life and my cars. I want them as perfect as I can make them. They are almost surivor cars and just may need to be left pretty much the way that they are. I am working with some NCRS guys too and they will advise me once I get them where I can work around them without being in such tight quarters. As you saw that Dam Can-Am car takes up way too much room. hard to beleive it is so big and so small (short) at the same time. I am toying with the Idea of going to Chicago to the Vettefest? Have to wait and see if I can work it out time wise." Larry Clain, 10/8/03

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55chevy

07-13-2006, 06:48 PM

Here is another post of Larry's I feel is fitting for this feature. This is when Larry announced he was bringing his '70 Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT 454 to SCR7 back in 2004.

"I finally picked up a good used '97 Dodge Diesel Dually to pull the Motion vette with. So many on the forum have expressed a desire to see it unrestored, this will be your chance.

Please remember to be kind to it when you see how shabby it looks. It was a long time ago and I had a bad case of Racing fever and when I spun a bearing in it setting FTD at a auto-X at Hallett motor raceway, I just took it home and parked it in the back yard. I fully planed on going through the motor and getting it out to cruse the local drive-in with but never seemed to have the time.

Back then, I was working all the time on my 69 L-88 SCCA Vette, so both of my Motion cars were just sorta forgotten.
I even opened a body shop and it was too successful for me to ever get much done on the Black car. I did get as far as striping the black paint off the body. It still is setting there as far as I got on it today.

The 69 Motion was wrecked from behind and I just was too interested in winning my division and going to the runoffs at Alanta GA. in the SCCA car.

Between my used car business two teenage boys turning of age to learn to drive. I had a rageing ambition to be the next Mario Andretti, everything I did was for SCCA racing and it was just too much to try to work on the Motion's. Then I had the misfortune of getting passed like I was tied to a tree by a Can AM Lola Chev powered racecar. This was not just a pass but I was flat out in my vette on the back straight of Dallas's old airport when this blip went by on my left. I looked down to see if I had broke or something. Nope I was taching 7 grand in top gear with a 3:70 rear. He was just gone in a moment. This was a long runway and I got to see him take the corner at the end so fast it was not funny. From that moment on I just had to have one.

Well I bought a old F-5000 chev powered car just to see what it was like to go that fast. Well it was fast and fun but the motor blew up and I sold the roller and kept what was left of the motor. Next I traded a pair of used midyear vettes for a Can Am Lola like the one that blew me into the weeds.

That cost me a small fortune to put together and I never have gotten to drive it. One of these days I will finish it. About that time I decided to refinace my property and hire a professional mechanic to finish the car for me. I had dreams of makeing a "name" for myself in Can AM so I bought all new bodywork called a "Frissbee" and making the new car a ground affects class killer. I have the same car as a Lola that won at Mossport in 85. It was owned by Horst Kroll but he rented it to a new driver that went on to be a big name in Indy cars.

Unless you have ever gotten the racing fever you may not ever understand how you can put a nice car like ether one of my Motion cars out to pasture and just let them set and go to pot. I am so ashamed of the way they look. I hope that you all will be kind to me for my folly.

I am so glad that I never sold either one of them and you all have been so great to me on here. Going through the divorce back in 94 was fortunate as if she knew what they are worth today I would have been forced to sell them.

I has taken me many years to pay off the cost of that divorce and you can't know how I feel to find this forum.

So ragged as it is, you are all welcome to see the White W/gold stripe vette that I have horded all these years. Hope not too much of the paint flakes off on the trip up to SCR7. I am only using a open trailer to get it there. We will be out at the Drags on Fri. Then it will be in the building later that night.

Perhaps next year you will get to see both of my cars all dressed to kill and looking like new?" Larry Clain, 8/31/04

COPO PETE

07-20-2006, 03:25 PM

Amazing thread! RIP ! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif
Peter

musclecarjohn

07-25-2006, 03:18 AM

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Amazing thread! RIP ! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif
Peter

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X2...simply amazing!

John

07-31-2006, 06:29 AM

..Ed, That's a great tribute to your close friend Larry....
....thanks for sharing those photos with all your other friends.... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

55chevy

07-31-2006, 08:04 PM

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif

x Baldwin Motion

03-04-2007, 04:26 AM

Still missing Larry and his cars still missing. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Many detailed photos in this thread that should stay on the front page.

55chevy

03-04-2007, 07:05 PM

I agree.... can one of the mods make this thread a sticky so it stays at the top?
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