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Don, both Joel and Marty seemed pretty certain it was the one and only newly built BM Chevelle in 67 and the late delivery date (August 67) bears that out. The original magazine that talks about the car as delivered from Baldwin when it set the track record at NY National states it was the 1st one built.

I would not doubt other 67 chevelles were modified at some point at the Motion shop, but I think this is the only one that came through the new Baldwin Motion program and sold new completely modified with the 427.

As far as clones in 1980, there were quite a few in my area including a ton of cloned Z28's, Hemis, SS's and even a Yenko and a Dana Camaro. This is in the Washington DC area when I was in highschool. I bought a REAL 70 Z-28 that year as my first car, and I remember looking at a number of clones before finding a real car which I still own today almost 30 years later.

Can't wait to see the car completed. It is a special one for sure.