[fpcopo]

I know I'm gonna get killed for this but it has bothered me for a long time so here goes. My opinion and maybe only mine is that Baldwin Motion cars are junk. They are nowhere near as rare or desirable as any COPO. They were a standard RPO Chevy that was delivered to a speed shop and make no mistake not a shop that had any special connection to Chevrolet or any other manufacturer but just a speed shop not unlike the one in your town. When I started my business restoring cars in 1991, the first car we restored was a "Phase III" '71 Camaro. This car was a 7,100 mile unmolested car when we got it. I was shocked at the way Motion hacked and cobbled the installation of any thing they did. This car had the Hone overdrive and when the owner previous to the one we were restoring the car for first put slicks on it and hammered it, the overdrive even though not engaged, suffered lathed gears. This unit was so under engineered it could have never held up to the LS6 engine in the car. There were many other things wrong. Even though the engine had never been worked on, when it was disassembled it had one open chamber and one closed chamber head. I wonder who the genius was that did that?When Motion installed the fibre glass hood there was no place to attach the windshield squirters so they just let them dangle down the firewall on the hoses. Also people like to say how fast Joel Rosen's cars went. Why did he only run AHRA and not NHRA? Because he could never go fast enough to meet the standard of performance in NHRA's classes. The only guys from Motion that really ran well to my knowledge were Dennis Ferrara and Bill Mitchell and Mitchell did it with Volkswagens! Also a car that was not delivered by Baldwin and sent to Motion as a new car should not be considered a Baldwin Motion car. If it was purchased at another dealer and sent to Motion for mods later it should be considered just another speed shop hacked car and priced accordingly. This should also go for cars sent to Yenko, Harrell or any other speed shop after they were used. I just do not think a car purchased at another dealer and sent to Yenko for mods is anything other than a plain old modified car. I know I will probably get death threats for this but it is MY OPINION and I will stand behind it. the reason I bring this up is, the value of these cars is getting so high that I feel we need to keep it honest and not assign high prices or Godlike status to non COPO cars. Frank