Baldwin motion corvette

[billy6900]

I did not know any better and sent what I had left of my tank sticker to Joel R. The original of course before I know about the dealer zone number. Well to make a long story short Joel said he sent me back my tank sticker and that's been over 3 months ago, and still no tank sticker. LOST IN THE MAIL

[ronebee]

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.

[Dave Rifkin]

Has he tried doing a title search in an attempt to locate previous owners who may be able to shed some light on the history of the car? I was able to do that successfully with a 1968 SS/RS 396 I used to own and was lucky enough to get in touch with the second owner. He was nice enough to share some stories and sent a picture of the car from back when he owned it.

Good luck with your search.

[billy6900]

Hello, I did the title search I tracked it back to four owners, back to 1989 and none of the four have ever heard of a Motion Car. And the last guy that I talked to that owned it in 1989 went through all his old check books and some paper work and could not come up with any thing, or could not remember the person's name he purchased it from. I guy that bought it from him has a mallory dist. ansen wheels,the exhaust covers, and some other parts for the car I will be going to see him soon and maybe find another hopless lead to who built this car.

[x Baldwin Motion]

Is the body and interior as it was for all the previous owners? Though you could buy all the body parts through the catalog, Motion sent out the cars for the interior work, to several different shops so no two cars were identical. I would not count this out yet. Good luck!

[billy6900]

Hello, The Car has been this way through all of the owers since 1989 , except for the paint job was done in late 1989, along with the nose job in 1989. I was hoping someone from Indiana would remember this car. I was hoping a Indiana Corvette Club Member may recall seeing this car. At one point it had a picture painted on the hood of a man and women and a sexy pose.The car has been painted at laest 4 times. It started as a Cortex Silver, Marina Blue,A Copper Gold,and maroon, With a black stripe down center with the painting of the guy and girl. I thing I do know is that is NOT A ECKLERS CATALOG PARTS CAR. I have seen the ecklers car parts catalog and I know it's not the one piece rear end that ecklers offered. These are all Period Correct Motion Part's either from a Motion Catalog or Through Motion. The Edelbrock intake C3BX is from on the inside Speed and SuperCar Magazine Dated Oct. 1971 on the fourth page. It's the one with the Dennis Ferrara's 1971 Camaro on the cover. The Motion intake used on some of the big blocks were C427X does anyone know if the C3BX was offerd as part as the two day build ups. Someone built this car strong it is pushing 425 hp. with all period correct Motion type parts. Thanks Bill. P.S. Does anyone have a connection for NICB results.