'68 Yellow Motion Nova

[GiveMeTimeMachinePlz]

Hey all,

Happened to remember that once the warm weather comes, there is a car show in the back parking lot of a burger king/office building complex off one of the main roads in my area, and it's about 5 minutes away from work for me. So I get out of work at 6, and I head over to take a look, as I'd missed the first 2 weeks of the show ( they meet every Monday night from about 430 to 830-ish, depending on weather ). So I'm walking around, drinking in the glory ( being 17 years old, I missed out on the years of growing up with cars like 396 Camaros and Chevelles, 427 'vettes, 428 mustangs, etc etc ). As I'm walking around, a Yellow 1968 Chevy Nova catches my eye. The hood is popped and so is the trunk. The first thing I notice is the fly-eye air cleaner, And I'm like hey, reminds me of a Motion car. Then I move to the side of the car, and on the window above the quarter panel is a one the yellow Motion Performance stickers. Now I'm realllllly interested. I keep looking all around the car, and I notice the 427 tags on the fenders, as well as the Phase I style paint on the hood. I look in the interior, and see a 'Sun' tach ( I can't remember exactly what it said, but the tach looked exactly the same as the pictures of others that have been posted here before. ), and I look at the trunk and see a Baldwin Chevrolet sticker on the trunk. At this point I'm excited as hell, but I'm figuring its a clone, because hey, what are the chances that a REAL motion car would be in my little home town?

Lo and behold, the owner is standing behind the car as I'm searching around it like a hound dog. After I was done letting my jaw drill holes in the asphalt for a few minutes, I got up the nerve to go over and ask him about the car. I think it may have taken him by suprise that a 17 year old kid was asking some questions that weren't completely stupid about a car that was built 40 years ago. Anyhow, He ( throughout this ordeal, I forgot to get his name! Idiot! *smacks forehead* ) says that the car is indeed a real Baldwin Motion car. I asked him about having a letter from Joel Rosen, and lets just say he didn't agree with the whole paying $1500 deal. He bought the car 4 years ago from out west, California I believe. He mentioned taking it to 2 shows in Pennsylvania last year, but I fail to recall the names of the shows. The car looked to be in perfect shape, and must have undergone a restoration not all that long ago. While on subject, he also mentioned that he recently purchased a Holley 3-barrel carb off ebay. He was still trying to work out some bugs getting everything to run correctly, so he had put on a 4-barrel just to get it running and driving around. He'd just put 4.56 gears in it very recently, and was essentially driving it around to break them in. I was so awestruck by the whole thing that I went home and grabbed my camera, and came back. I took at least 10-20 pictures of the car, and all the little details I'd noticed. I also took pictures of just about every other car there, but spent a lot more time on this one lol. When I get home from work later today, I'm going to try and post the pictures I took.

I didn't know if anybody had already posted something on this car, but I figured it'd be a cool thing to share anyway

[x Baldwin Motion]

Hey, it's almost 630 !! what's taking so long to get those pictures up !!!!??

Can't wait to see a "Phase I" paint style!@!

[mockingbird812]

Hey James - you got us all on the edge of our seats. One thing tho - we took a vote. In order for you to continue on this website you will HAVE to modify your user name.............................................. ................................ Drop the " n' dumb "!!!!!

So far we have seen NO evidence of such and we love having the young generation so engaged in the vintage muscle car world!!

[Xplantdad]

I agree with Sam...

[x Baldwin Motion]

I have to agree with Sam, If you can figure out how to post photos here, drop the "Dumb". How 'bout young and eager, or learning or "still has hair"

[AutoInsane]

Did you tell the guy about this website??? You have any more good posts like this one and you are going to have to change your screen name!!

Where are the pics???

[GiveMeTimeMachinePlz]

Hey guys, sorry it took so long to try and get these up here, the past few days haven't been too kind to me. I found out what it's like to hit a Jersey barrier, and it isn't fun. Wreck wasn't my fault, but alas, I'm still paying damage because the other guy took off. But enough of that, on with the photos!

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427 emblem

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engine compartment 1

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yay fly-eye!