Re: Interesting thought
""Supergonzo, Do you go the LI car shows?"" Sometimes I do, but those shows are in suffolk county and are a pain to get to for me. I have gone to Bellmore when it was going last year. I have been to both of the shows you mentioned, just not recently. I DO still go to test and tune at westhampton track regularily. I race pure stock muscle cars, and belong to the American Muscle Car Association, which runs the national pure stock drags every year in Ohio. Which I go to.
""the same perspective about the Motion cars as you. One vendor was telling me he didn't think Motion was such a dig deal back in the day and could not understand why the Motion cars have high value today.""" I Couldn't agree more
""What Baldwin/Motion did was not all that much different then what other hi po dealers did but Joel and Marty had that special mixture of luck, public perspective, and talent"",...Yes all true, what they did best was promote their NAME..MOTION...other places just did the work and that was that.
""Motion was building hi po cars that came with a 11 sec ET guarantee and you could buy them at a Chevy dealer using GMAC"".Yes the 11 sec ET, ever hear of any body collecting on it??
""They continued building, selling, and advertising hi po cars until the Government shut them down.""
The Government shut down ALL customized car businesses, because of safety reasons, this eliminated alot of dune-buggy manufacturers almost immediately. Motion got some heat for trying to produce BBC Vega's. That didn't go over to well with the then safety minded government.
""Motion cars are SuperCar legends."" I agree, they build some nice cars, it seems stickers and ads however can go along way to establishing a legend.
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