Re: Baldwin motion corvette
Just want to add, Bills story is true, Docs are lost in the mail. I Flew out to See Bill and the car. Having some dealings with Joel in the past, I called Joel as Bill said he hadn't gotten his things back. Joel said that he had sent stuff back, so what was left of tank sticker is history.
My two cents worth, this is a neat car that needs, would make a real nice car. Interior is not a motion interior (I was previous owner of the Moray GT, I'm no expert, but I'm also not an idiot), appears to be Motion or eckler body kit, long l-88 hood. Frame appeared to be good on the car, "traction bar" on the car is a lakewood bar that somebody u-bolted to the bottom spring plate, not at all like something from motion. The right nose is on the car for a 1969, that 80 front cover is glassed over the original nose, you can look in there and see the 69 openning, never seen that before. The car did have ansen sprints at one point as shown in the photos, and those pictures show the car not to be a glued up mess, appears this work was well done and done early in the cars life. Car has 350/350 center console. No rear sway bar. Car looks killer with the torque thrust d's on it. Roll up windows, no a/c, I think power brakes but no power steering.
Per my conversation with Joel, he did the "inconclusive thing" ("can't tell at this time if this is one of mine").
He also mentioned one of his cars was just found in Sussatuwan, Canada.
It would be great if somebody here knew anything about this car. It is an original Sebring (cortez?)Silver car with standard black interior. In my less than expert opinion, I have no idea if this car is a Baldwin car, a customer car or a catalog car done outside of Motion. It has the start of a really neat car and it appears to be a solid starting point.
I know Bill is really trying to trace history on this car. I'm sure any leads would be of great help.
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