Re: Nice car, but so much wrong
 

Have to agree with LV/Charley and a few others and say Joel was at the forefront of building up any Muscle car and I would love to have one. Matter of fact there were a few here in Hawaii to include the Ribbon Car but thats been cubed and now sitting about 3 miles off shore and at about 1200FT (According to the last owners son who said that car and a bunch of parts were hauled off by a new home owner that bought a house and wanted the place cleaned out!!!)

As for NHRA Records:

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<font color="brown">Dennis Ferrara's
"Motion Performance"
70 Camaro A/MP
In the early 70's Dennis drove this car
to hold NHRA national records
13 different times.
As an A/MP car weighing in at a hefty 3024 lbs, it
ran 9.30 at 140mph.
This 430 ci Rat motored car was unbeaten in
class for 3 years straight !!
Ertl reproduced this car as it was raced in the 70's
tunnel ram intake w/ 2 4bbl carbs, racing headers,
hood scoop, slicks on Centerlines, </font>

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Also people like to say how fast Joel Rosen's cars went. Why did he only run AHRA and not NHRA?

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Why not run Nhra? I think the local tracks were affiliated with AHRA. Suffolk County was AHRA. And I believe the Hamptons on Long Island may have been also. Not sure about New York International. No one knows the exact reason Joel did not run the national nhra circuit. I don't think he even ran the AHRA circuit out of his area for that matter. Joel probably felt he did not have to. I would say the majority of his cars sold or were converted to people in the immediate surrounding states.

BTW: The New York mags that heavily promoted Motion (other than HiPerformance Cars) were just that, regional mags that portrayed the New York scene. Every car ever featured or show coverage was from one of the New York burroughs it seemed like. Up until ebay and the internet I met people out of other regions of the country who had never heard of Hot Cars, Rodding &amp; Super Stock, Super Street Cars, Chevy Power and Chevy Action.

Re: Nice car, but so much wrong
 

Heck you should ad Motion performance to that list. I have had my cars for so many years and never mentioned them to people. When I did they would look at you kinda dumb and say "whats that". Very seldom nowadays do I find anyone that even knows what a Motion is. And when I do they usually think they are all "Baldwin Motion's". I usually don't try to inform them of what the difference is.


Pantera

Re: Nice car, but so much wrong
 

I would like to make a Motion that we just kill Frank now...... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif