Re: 1969 Baldwin Motion Conversion?
 

MM.....and Stefano...LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is one of the major drugs making up the hallucinogen class. LSD was discovered in 1938 and is one of the most potent mood-changing chemicals. It is manufactured from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and other grains.Check the back yard of these guys for gardens !!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

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So thats what Stefano puts in your drink when you show up to take a look at his cars.When I walked by the garage into the house when I first arrived they were copos.After some water and coversation we went out to look and they had yenko stripes.My head was a little woosy but I think on the radio was a comercial for some chevrolet dealer called Douglass.I was confused so I didn't buy anything. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

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That was a close one COPOLOCATOR...when the stuff wears off the stripes disappear !

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Many people have told me that I need to be medicated, but it was only their professional opinions.

Bob,
The legal library at Joliet is very exhuastive. I am glad to see you spent some time there during you last visit [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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I enter this topic and start reading,only to slowly back away and leave. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

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Hey COPO, I found this picture of the car you are thinking of in south Georgia. This car used to belong to a guy I worked with and he sold it to someone down around Augusta. This is the same car that is in the magazine article above. I knew I had a couple of pictures of it.

BTW sixtiesmuscle what happened to this car? Have you restored it?. I should have never passed on that car. Oh well maybe next time I will be a little wiser [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]..............RatPack.......................

Re: 1969 Baldwin Motion Conversion?
 

I think this was covered in another post, but, Kevin S. purchased the car, and, is having the restoration finished.

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Rat Pak, any more pics, love that day 2 car! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif[/img] I passed on it as well!

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I'll post some pictures in a couple weeks when it is done. Mike had most of the hard work already done when I acquired it, with the exception of paint. Originally a Hugger Orange car from the factory, it was re-painted 3 additional different colors in it's life; white, blue, with black having been the last color. In the magazine articles you can see it was re-painted white with the owners name/logo etc. Motion Performance did the very extensive (3 pages of invoices) 427 ZLX 650 HP Phase III conversion, but did not re-paint it. Therefore, I chose to put it back to it's original Factory color of Hugger Orange, as the white re-paint was not included in the Motion invoices.

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What year did Motion do the conversion? I may have an article on that car.

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Joe, the magazine articles are already posted on the first page of this thread.

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One is already posted, but maybe there was more than one feature on the car? By the way, after looking at this other article, since it's a Motion, maybe you could call it Passionate Persimmon instead or Hugger Orange.
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Belk, here are some pictures of the car as I looked at it in 1993 when Lee owned the car. These were taken at his Dad's house in North Georgia and the car at that time had not been moved since the mid seventies. The paint scheme it has is the one that Joel told me was "the ugliest paint schemes they had ever done." That coming from a man that had some weird off the wall stuff during the eighties: Motion Iroc and Monte SS come to mind. When I looked at the car there was a seperate invoice for the paint work and I believe it was around $600............RatPack............

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Troy, cool pic! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img] It says 18 downloaded, but only 1 appeared? Thanks. Dave

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I think that number is the amount of people on this site who have looked at the picture Dave.

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Another picture.................RatPack.........

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Troy, As you can see in the magazine article it was painted white with owner's names/logo, which like Joel says was pretty ugly? But it wasn't painted by Motion from what I have. The set of 3 Motion Invoices total up to one combined total on the third page with no inclusion or price for any paint work. I assume an outside shop must have done full re-paints for Motion, or the customer shopped it out himself. That must explain why you saw a separate invoice.

When owners make color changes like the White, then Blue, and then this Black with red stripes, I don't consider that as any Historical value to what Motion did. It would be like an owner changing a 69 Yenko Camaro's color to Red and you wouldn't restore it as a Red Yenko as it has no Yenko historical value (plus Incorrect).

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Dave, Belair is correct. Here is another one...........RatPack.........................

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I like the front end paint combo with the SS and the scoop paint but that rear stripe would have been gone a long time ago. Guess thats why Chevy dropped it from their stripe options for having a rear stripe around the rear of the cars. But restoring it as a collector car I would have to keep the stripe in place. any of that make sence

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This Black with red stripes was kind of neat, but just a later owner re-paint. When the resto shop stripped the paint off of the car, it was black over blue, then blue over white, as this white was over the original factory Hugger Orange. The different owner's color change re-paints wouldn't have any collector car significance pertaining to Motion Performance.

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Due to NHRA rule changes the 1969 Camaro body got popular again in the mid 70s. Motion ran a red white and blue 69 Camaro in the mid 70s.

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Thanks Belair! Didn't realize that. Troy, cool pics. Kevin, cool car. Are you going to go with any stripe scheme?

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Dave, thanks, but you'll have to wait for the pictures. Now get busy and finish my net.

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Kevin, have you filled out your credit app. for us yet? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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You saying that blank check I mailed you wasn't any good? Next time put a few less zeros in it, it's only a net I'm buying, not a car.

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<font color="blue">Troy, cool pics. Kevin, cool car. </font>

Dave, thanks. I have been going through a bunch of these old pictures and just came across those that I forgot that I had. The car is way too cool and glad sixtiesmuscle was able to obtain it before it rotted away. Now it has gone onto another collector who likes to have the biggest and baddest hot rods in the USA. Kevin, enjoy that car and paint it however you feel is correct...........RatPack..........

ps: I think I would paint it back white with "SEMI HEMI" on the sides like it was when it was taken to MP. Not many people could say that they owned a magazine car from 1974!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif[/img]

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Thanks Troy, if it were someone famous like Grumpy Jenkins with a white car, I would've painted it white with the Grump's name for sure. But I felt this was an unknown private racer that chose to re-paint it a different color, and put his name all over the car. So, it was a toss-up between restoring it to the original factory Hugger Orange, or to the white color it was in the magazine photo. Since the key historical items to me were how the car left GM and what Motion Performance did to it, I chose to go that way; and not to how the private owners modified it afterwards.

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Kevin that makes a lot more sense. Neat car. Kim [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif[/img]