[camarojoe]

Personally, i can't see how any true "car guy" living on the East coast in the late 60s-early 70s could not have heard about Motion. They advertised HEAVILY in nearly every east coast based magazine, and every other feature car was a car from Motion... they had the supercar club, etc etc..and had WAY more widely distributed advertising than Nickey, Berger,Yenko etc...Frank, you say Nickey was well known... yeah, that would be true in Chicago and close surrounding areas... but I believe Motion cars were known in a far wider area of the US due to the CARS, Speed and Supercar, etc. magazine articles and ads. As SC Kid stated, our dad and all his car buddies who were in their late teens-early 20s, living in the Pittsburgh area during the lates 60s-early 70s were VERY aware of Baldwin/Motion, even if they had never seen an actual Motion car or had gone to NY. This was due to the fact that they were advertised on the inside cover of all the cool car mags of the day. Yenko didnt advertise on a national level nearly as much, but was well known simply because of its proximity to them, much like Nickey was well known in the Chi-town area. Just like today, advertising was what got the cars known outside of the local area of the dealer, and I don't think anyone had more widespread advertising than Motion. Of course this is jmo, as i wasn't "there" either, just going by local folklore, etc. Around here, most 50-something car guys know the names Yenko, and Baldwin Motion very well, but many give you a puzzled look when you talk about Nickey, Dana, or Berger. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]