rustyhale- It is not publicly known how many cars Motion built per year. We can only śguesstimate”. I live about 1hr. away from where the Motion cars were built and I know a few guys who are fans of the Motion cars and met guys who knew Joel and his crew from the drag strip and remember the Motion cars. The number I hear the most is about 50 1969 Camaros. Some say less then 50. Another guy told me Motion was doing one or two a week. That would mean 50 to 100. Motion did not have an assemble line. We can look at other non-assembly line cars that we know the numbers for like for example the 1967 and 1968 Yenko Camaros. There were 54 1967 Yenkos and 64 1968 Yenkos. In 1969 Yenko used the assembly line built COPO cars and sold 198 Camaros. NHRA required that 50 cars had to be built to make a legal Super Stock drag car so NHRA must have thought that 50 was a reasonable number for a special built factory car. I am just trying to give you a rough idea for discussion only. As far as the value, again there are no hard numbers to use. I looked at a 1969 Motion Chevelle last summer that needed a complete restoration. The owner had a letter from Joel saying that the vin number was on JoelĂs list. I believe this car sold for about 50K. There was a Motion Phase III GT Corvette for sale on a Corvette web site recently with an asking price of 150K but I do not know if it was sold. Regardless of how you look at it, a 1969 Motion Phase III Camaro with full documentation and varification from Joel is both very rare and valuable. I have a lot of articles on the Motion cars but most photos are black and white. Here is one taken in front of the Motion shop.
