New Generation of Motion Camaros - What Happened?

[427TJ]

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Just kinda curious about what happened with the new generation of Motion Camaros that were going to go into production. I remember the red one rolling across the auction block at B-J a couple of years ago and everybody was expecting to see several more similar ones popping up but I've never seen anymore at all besides the initial red one. What happened?

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They cost too much and don't look like the originals.

Joe Sixpack could easily buy one (finance one) in 1967-73 but Joe Sixpack's earnings have remained essentially stagnant since the early 1980s while prices have slowly crept upward. Add to that the rise of the millionaire car collector and Joe Sixpack's old B-M (and just "M") 427/454 (etc.) conversion cars became Faberge Eggs overnight as their legend, and monetary value, exploded.

I understand the hope of the Motion guys that they could profit off of the recent money-mania in the collector car scene but they seem to have missed their mark. Timing could be a factor too as the easy/free credit economy collapsed. Maybe four years ago Joe Sixpack could borrow on his house to buy a new Motion Camaro but not anymore. Not for a while anyway, until easy credit returns.

Joe Sixpack made the B-M cars famous 40 years ago and these new cars just don't seem to electrify people the same way. Collector/investors have made almost everything that is desireable virtually unaffordable to the rest of us and without easy credit we can't even mortgage our homes anymore to buy toys we can't really afford.

It seems to me that the new Motion cars aimed right past the Joe Sixpacks (who can barely afford a new Camaro) and right at the car collector/investor demographic. So far it seems that the car collector/investor demographic has not responded, at least not in the numbers the builders may have hoped for. Maybe we have to wait another 40 years and see?