69 Baldwin Motion Help

[blazes0003]

Alright, this is my first post here and I am really just trying to find some info, maybe, just maybe, find the person who now owns this car. I have to get all the info from my dad, but I'll start off with some info that I do remember him telling me. My father back in '69 purchased a 69 Phase III 427 from a toronto dealership that had it built and brought up here. He took delivery of it, owned it for a few years and sold it. Now I don't know if he sold it, or traded it in..... It was a blue car, all aluminum block solid liter car. Again, I have to get some more info from him, but this is all I can remember right now. He has had a few fast cars over the years, but he always comes back to this one and how upset he was selling it. It would be very interesting if this car is in fact still around and even more interesting if it is still in Canada....

[PeteLeathersac]

Welcome aboard Peter!.
I take it you don't happen to still have the Vin?.
Did your Dad ever race the car on the track?.
What was the dealer that had the car built and shipped to Toronto?.
Lance ( https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...amp;what=login ) may be a good bet for someone here that may have some memories of this car?.
Any old pics you can share?.


~ Pete

[midyr]

I have no knowledge of this car. The one we had was pearl yellow with the Hone overdrive.

Lance

[blazes0003]

He has no vin, he is looking for some pictures of it. He purchased it from a dealership called Beaumont chev olds at/around jane and lawerance, in toronto. He said it took them about 6 months to get it for him and it cost him just under $4000.00. He had to pay in advance for it. He told me he used to take it to Cayuga and race at some place by the 400, around the drive-in theatre. The car was blue. Thats pretty much all I have right now. I'll see what else he comes up with shortly. Thanks for all your help.

[SuperNovaSS]

Phase III Motion Camaro with a ZL1 for just under $4000?
Sounds a little cheap.


Jason

[blazes0003]

Sorry, sorry, my mistake, he said around 4900, I meant to say just under 5000.00. My mistake.

[Born30YrsLate]

The engine itself should have cost about $4000...

[blazes0003]

I am not sure on the specifics, I wasn't around then. I do know that my father did in fact own one, besides his close life long friend talked about this car too. It was actually my father and this friend that went to the dealer to get this car. His friend was/is a car nut and he was the one who told my dad to get this specific car. He saw it in a magazine article. My dad didn't really know what the car was at that point, he was just interested in getting a big block camaro. My dad mentioned that the salesman wasn't to interested in getting this car, and he was actually trying to sell him a showroom camaro that had a 396 in it. He finally ended up getting it ordered, and took a while to get it. It was my grandmother that saved the money for him and gave him the money to buy himself a car, she didn't know exactly what he was buying. My dad told me he used to take it to some guy to have it tuned and the lash adjusted on it. The main reason he got rid of it was because he was 18/19 at the time he owned it and my grandmother forced him to sell it because she was certain he was going to kill himself. He told me the car was just a beast to drive, never ending power were his words. He also said the gas milage was bad even for back then, but it was an awsome car. I know there is going to be nay-sayers, and thats fine, but these are the facts, no need to make anything up.

[x Baldwin Motion]

What color blue, and what color strip scheme if any did it have? Any hood mods? Thanks and good luck with the picture search.

[midyr]

Belmont was at Lawrence & Jane. We never sold a car of this description.