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does anybody have any information on this corvette it appeared on a episode of chips is it a motion car?

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It may be a Greenwood corvette

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i thought it was a greenwood too until i saw the tailights

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it looks like a can am spyder with 79 camaro taillights
i saw a motion ad in a old car magazine from the 70s wich had a corvette with these taillights.

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Your user name sud just you have one of these ?

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in the early nineties i bought my first camaro 87 iroc z
at the time i felt the car looked like every other iroc out there so i orderd a motion iroc kit wich included wide body conversion ferrari style hatch twin turbo hood f40 rear wing lemans flip top gas door the kit sat in my garage for years im finally getting around to completeing the car wich should be in paint by the end of the summer i will post pictures later .i wish i had one built by motion from what i hear there very rare

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I only no of one still around its yellow and was owned buy Joel Rosen MR Motion. and now a member of this site owns it along with other motion cars.
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i know the car well i saw it in long island several years ago i remember it from the motion catalogue and the super chevy article .you could not buy the door conversion only the cars built in house by motion got that treatment. what
happened to the red one pictured above check out this 84 it appeared in miami vice

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do you own this car

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unfortunately no https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

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have you seen this one [image]http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3.../a021-1ghg.jpg[/image]

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or this 1981 Motion corvette [image]http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3...tephaseiii.jpg[/image]

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http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3...ontacamaro.jpg

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did motion ever build any 84-up corvettes

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does anybody have any information on this corvette it appeared on a episode of chips is it a motion car?

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I don't think that car is a Motion car; I seem to recall a Corvette shop in California that had done some cars that had been featured in the magazines of the day. I think the shop was Bernie's Custom Corvettes or soemthing like that. I remember that many of the Corvettes this shop had done used those Camaro tail lights.

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did motion ever build any 84-up corvettes

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I believe the 81 was the last motion corvette. from talking with Joel a few times.

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thanks for the info. heres an atachment of the only motion car to appear in a movie cleopatra jones

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If I remember correctly, the Yellow Motion Phase III Corvette Joel found and restored was originally bought as a gift for a movie producer and later found on a movie set wearing cheap black paint over the original Motion paint/stripes. It was said to have been in a movie. The story is in a Vette mag article.

Motion built a few cars though the 1980s and maybe early 1990s. and still was designing/selling some custom fiberglass parts.
Here is a picture of Joel’s wife’s Mustang that was used in the catalog.
I was told she would cruz this rig to LI beach with the top down and a big dog riding shotgun.

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If I remember correctly, the Yellow Motion Phase III Corvette Joel found and restored was originally bought as a gift for a movie producer and later found on a movie set wearing cheap black paint over the original Motion paint/stripes. It was said to have been in a movie. The story is in a Vette mag article.

Motion built a few cars though the 1980s and maybe early 1990s. and still was designing/selling some custom fiberglass parts.
Here is a picture of Joel’s wife’s Mustang that was used in the catalog.
I was told she would cruz this rig to LI beach with the top down and a big dog riding shotgun.

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Motion car or not that thing is fugly.

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the car in the movie is black and has a motion stripe on it its a 73 corvette it has the shelby side scoops in the roof side panels ansen slot mags flared rear fenders fast back window twin turbo hood custom tailights that i havent seen on other motion vettes fixed headlights not gt lights four square with light covers the only thing it was missing the flip top gas door is this the car you are talking about if you have that article could you post it or send attachment

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Here's that photo Joe.........http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...tionalpine.jpg

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You still must have good eyes for an old guy. You seem to see everything in motion. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

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Here's that photo Joe.........http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...tionalpine.jpg

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https://www.yenko.net/attachments/328466-070.jpg

Neither of these are 73's while sporting a chrome bumper.

There hasn't been any history discovered on any GT's after 71.

Joe G.; Have you any more text or follow-up on that story?

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The rumor that was printed is that this PhaseIII GT 454 vette appeared in Cannonball Run but that clip wound up on the cutting room floor....but the car was saved..http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...60-R1-E011.jpg

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AS EVERYBODY CAN SEE THIS IS NOT THE CAR I AM TALKING ABOUT
THE CAR IN CLEOPATRA JONES PICTURED ABOVE THE YELLOW GT IS A 73 AND DOES NOT HAVE A CROME FRONT BUMPER THATS THE MOTION STRIPE WRAPPING AROUND THE FRONT RUBBER BUMPER THIS IS THE ONLY PICTURE I COULD RETRIEVE OFF THE INTERNET IM TRYING TO GET A COPY OF THE MOVIE TO POST MORE PICTURES

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Sorry kiddo,I couldn't find your Vette photo, but I was able to find the one JoeC had mentioned---I'll still look for yours----No need for the caps...........

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The yellow Phase III GT is the one that was in the Warner Bros movie studio inventory at one time then Joel found it some where in the Midwest and bought it back according to the article.

How do you know the cleopatra jones movie car was a Motion Corvette?
It looks similar to the Motion Super Shark III but don't think it is the same car. This Super Shark III is a wild custom 1975 Corvette show car Joel built around 1984. It had a chrome undercarriage, a 4-seat conversion, blower, Camaro tail lights, wings, a bunch of other stuff
attached picture of mag cover

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the photo is above the yellow gt sorry about the capital letters i hit my caps lock button by accident

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i could be wrong it just looks like something joel built the fastback gt back window mustang shelby side scoops the motion stripe fender flares ansen slot mags twin turbo style hood the movie is a warner brothers film ive atached another photo front end shot of the car during a chase seen

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I heard a long time ago that Corvette in Cleopatra Jones movie was supposedly a Motion Vette.. So I bought a VHS copy of it on ebay... What a horrible freakin movie from what I remember.. I don't think I watched the whole thing, just got it to see the car. To me the car didn't look like a Motion car from the 70-73 era. (the movie was made in 1973) But it does appear similar to 74 and later Motion Vette mods.. The headlights appear to be the same as the Spyder Vettes and most all Motion Vettes from 75-80............ Then again I'm sure no Motion Corvette expert............................
. Did he start that headlight mod in 73??? Would have had to be a 72 or 73 Vette to be in a 1973 movie. Only other details of that car I can remember is that it had a black diamont tuck interior similer to 1 or 2 other Motion Vettes from the time period. Can't remember seeing any MOTION emblems on it from the movie. I got a dvd copy on the way in the mail just to see it again... Maybe the movie won't suck so bad this time around https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Wasn't one of Joels Vettes shown on an episode "CHIPS" too?http://adwoff.com/smilies/c/captivated_by_tv.gif

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i could be wrong it just looks like something joel built the fastback gt back window mustang shelby side scoops the motion stripe fender flares ansen slot mags twin turbo style hood the movie is a warner brothers film ive atached another photo front end shot of the car during a chase seen

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Yeah.. I just got done watching this stupid movie.. In my opinion the car is NOT a Motion built car. The only mod on the car that resembles anything Motion did is the Shelby scoops on the side pillars. And I think I remember someone saying somewhere that Motion only ever did that to One (1) Corvette at the owners request.. The Gold/Black 69 Phase III GT.. But I could be wrong. Anyway the movie is horrible. I started out trying to watch it and ended up watching it in fast forward only pausing to look at the car scenes in frame by frame mode... It's not a Motion car.. Most likely just a movie car built in CA like the rest of them. My guess it's an older Vette with a '73 nose added along with all the other body mods.. It does have flared out wheel wells (not like Motion Vettes), The tail panel job looks nothing like Motion work (look at the pics)... It does have a fastback window job, but it's nothing like the Motion GT rear window. My memory was wrong about the interior, It just has the standard black cloth stock interior (other than the fold down door panel full of guns and crap).. This car has a couple other movie props on it too like the hydraulic ram operated T-top that raised when the driver door opens and flame throwing tail pipes (under the license plate). Another glaring fact that shows this not to be a Motion car.. I don't think Joel was in the business of building Movie Prop cars.. Motion was in Long Island, NY.. This hidious movie was filmed in CA.. and it had to have been filmed in 1972. This movie was released in July 1973. Thats why I think it's an older Vette with a '73 nose added.. This just seems like an aweful lot of work to do to a brand new 1973 Vette, have time to film the movie and have it all done in time for a July release.. Anyway, here are two shots from the tv screen.. Judge for yourself.. and remember, not every car that has a stripe up the middle of the roof is a Baldwin/Motion car....... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/crazy.gif

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...s/CIMG3138.jpg
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Also, I did a quick search and came up with this link on Corvettes in movies..
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vettepop/

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This is the only way I'd get behind the wheel of a big bumper Camaro. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Does anybody know the whereabouts of those 2 white & red cars???????

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Pretty sure those cars were in an article or post referring to M/P cars which were being shipped overseas, possibly to the Middle East back then....

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So they are not accounted for? Has anybody ever tried to hunt these cars down or asked Joel about them?