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I often wonder if anyone ever asked him flat out if they were factory installed 427's, or how he managed to do them so cleanly when people were used to seeing the speed shop underhood look of the Motion and Nickey converted cars.
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To be honest, I don't think that back then anyone looking to buy a new Yenko car even knew what a Motion or Nickey car was.. Back in the day when these things were new isn't like today.. These Supercars have been brought together by years and years of magazine features and fans and communications by enthusiasts amongst each other and not to mention today with the internet and
www.yenko.net... You know? But back in 1969 when a Yenko 427 (name your car here) was brand spanking shiny new in front of Yenko Chevrolet.. I really doubt there was ANYONE pulling in and looking at that monster thinking.. 'you know, this don't look like a Baldwin/Motion car.... Chevrolet must've put this one together on the factory line'.. I Seriously doubt it. I think in todays world where we really think WAY TOO INDEPTH about what happened BACK THEN that made these awesome machines come out the way they did... I think we loose touch with reality a little too much and forget why we love these cars like we do.. When you get down to such minute details about which way should the head on the 1/2" fender bolt be facing and how much overspray under the rocker panels should there be in fractions of a cm.... Man it just gets to be too much.. Yes, I like to see a nicely restored car as close to what we think the factory put out as much as the next guy.. But the fact is the factorys that built the cars we love threw these things together as FAST as they possibly could and there isn't TWO single cars ever made that are the same. Back in the 1960s-early 70s.. There were no standards.. Not like we put on them today.. There were cars being built at 4:38 on Fridays back then and everyone knows what happens from about that time on.. You just want to get the hell out of work and go home.. Know what I mean? These are CARS... They are going to OUT LIVE ALL OF US... HAVE FUN with them.. DRIVE the damn things.. Money aside. Money comes.. Money goes. Don't be the 95 year old guy that in his next to last breath says... "I've got a Baldwin/Motion Camaro that I bought brand new .. and it's only got 300 Miles on it.. yep. I never drove it.. It's perfect.. "" CROKE...FLOP OVER DEAD.. Have fun guys. That's why were're here and that's why we were givin these toys.. What compares to value of pleasure of life? I will NEVER trailer a car and I will NEVER spend a week polishing a car just to show it at some judged (by who?) show and the push it back on to the trailer to take it home, polish it and wait for the next show to to take it to, polish it and repeat repeat repeat... I'm going to ENJOY my cars, just like I've always done... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img] Live my friends.. LIVE.