68 Motion Corvette??? EBAY

Tommy_Mathison · #1 03-02-2003, 10:08 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...;category=6168 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]
looks legit, but would have to have Joel verify.....

budnate · #2 03-02-2003, 11:06 PM

Cool, is it the real deal??.

**olredalert** · #3 03-03-2003, 01:32 AM

-----This has all the earmarks of a correct Motion Corvette.I would imagine that very few Corvettes have ALL the Motion body options,unless they are Motion cars.I know that I wanted to do some of the modifications to my 69 435 back then,but didnt like them all and in the end couldnt afford any of them anyway.I put what extra money I had into speed stuff.It was more important to win than look cool.More guys like me than the other way around.Very few of us Corvette owners back then had the money to do it all!This would be worth further exploration by any interested party,in my opinion...........Bill S

SuperCars · #4 03-03-2003, 01:50 AM

Anyone here is free to correct me, but to the best of my knowledge, no 68's got the GT body modifications, only the engine/drive train performance modifications. I think it may have been mid-production year of 69 before Joel started doing the GT body modifications.

**olredalert** · #5 03-03-2003, 02:59 AM

Kevin

------You may be correct about that.It didnt occur to me,but very good observation!.........Bill S

Tommy_Mathison · #6 03-03-2003, 03:26 AM

is an orig. motion car one that was converted NEW by joel or could you have brought in your 68 vette in 1969 and had joel convert it? would that constitute a real motion car?

**TimG** · #7 03-03-2003, 01:23 PM

The tach does not show it came with a High Performance 427 if it is original.

SuperCars · #8 03-03-2003, 01:37 PM

I think it is very possible someone took this 68 Vette later to Motion in 69 or even later to have it modified. I wouldn't think anyone would go through that effort today to build what looks like an aged GT Vette needing restoration. If it was done by Motion and can be backed up with documentation, it would be worth more than if it were a ordinary 68 Vette, but less than a Baldwin Motion Vette. Motion Performance is the key to the added value, more so than Baldwin. An regular car sold by Baldwin and not modified by Motion is still a regular car.

JoeC · #9 03-03-2003, 03:51 PM

Documentation is everything on a Motion car. Motion didn't use that nose in 68 but could have installed it if the car was brought in to the shop after 69. Motion also sold those nose clips in their mail order catalog so could have been installed by anyone.

**TimG** · #10 03-03-2003, 03:54 PM

That is true. I came close to buying a 69 Motion Corvette at Bloomington in 1992, it was a 400 horse blue coupe. It did have a window sticker and was quite a nice car. The window sticker was correct but is showed a dealer from North Carolina. After a bit of research it came out the car was sent to Motion when it was about six months old and I learned that only Baldwin Chevrolet cars are are considered legitimate. This sure was a nice, correct car with many of the modifications.

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